“At the end of her book we feel we know these couples as intimately as if we were part of their circle, but the ultimate nature of each relationship is left inviolate in its unknowability.”

“A thoroughly apophatic commitment to divine unknowability appears incompatible with the claim that God is known in Christ.”

“Of course, one of the points made there is unknowability, and the nature of being unknowable is that it's unknowable.”