A Profound Ignorance: Modern pneumatology and its anti‐modern redemption by Ephraim Radner (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2019), ix + 453 pp

There are many ways one could parse Ephraim Radner’s latest installation, A Profound Ignorance: as an ironically verbose apophaticism with pneumatological overtones; as the deconstructive sequel to Radner’s ode to ordinary, bodily life in A Time to Keep; as a contemporary charge of Montanism put to modernity at large; as a Foucauldian genealogy of pneumatology’s colonial and anti-corporeal roots; or even as a modern-day book of Job, whose writer interrogates his companions’ spirited theodical constructions before terminating in speechless awe. As ever, the book reviewer’s humble task is seriously strained by the characteristic density of Radner’s scholarship.