AtD Cyprian’s religiosity I mean dig this sentence

[Raphael Saltwood]

“Cyprian, while rejecting his family’s High Church faith, strangely had begun - especially when the Mags [Magnificats] and Nuncs [Nunc Dimittis] and Matins responsories could be heard from services at Trinity or King’s - to glimpse that, precisely because of its impossibilities, the disarray of self-important careerists and hierarchy-obsessed functionaries, the yawning and fidgeting town-lad choristers and narcotic sermonizing, it was possible to hope, not so much despite as paradoxically because of this very snarled web of human flaws, for the emergence of the incommensurable mystery, the dense, unknowable Christ, bearing the secret of how once on a hilltop that was not Zion, he had conquered death.”

Echoing and embellishing a very famous quotation about Christian faith: “I believe because it is absurd.”

https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:683925