What is reality? This is a question historians and philosophers can ask together. Let me use it to ponder the story under review, in which immanence is retrieved from secularization as a history in its own right, one whose telling will uncover resources for thinking in the present. This is a history on the more mobile end of the spectrum. But unlike secularization, there might be real stakes and risks here, both popular and scholarly. The tone is not only one of, Look what we might do with Western theological thinking on the wane. If only it was on the wane, or was not. It is also, Did you not realize there has been another story all along? Nietzsche knew it, though he was no born-again pagan. Leo Strauss knew it, Augustine knew it, Baruch Spinoza knew it, and so on: choose your own adventure. Knew what?