The remarkably fitting theme music for Peter Elliot’s musing is the tone poem by Richard Strauss, inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophical novel about the death of God.

It is more widely known, of course, as the music in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey; it introduces a bunch of monkeys banging bones on the ground in front of a large black obelisk. Symbolic of a contemporary Anglican synod, perhaps.

I’m not sure which of these ideas is supposed to be the backdrop for Dean Peter’s exhortations, but I suppose either would work.