It's unsurprising that "genuinely great minds" raised in a religious tradition would try to apply the tools of their trade to justify what would otherwise surel

It's unsurprising that "genuinely great minds" raised in a religious tradition would try to apply the tools of their trade to justify what would otherwise surely appear to them to be a very strange and illogical set of beliefs, but that doesn't mean that "many philosophers find it intriguing", and certainly not currently. Russell's ultimate view of it, as I'm sure you know, was to summarise it as "cases of bad grammar", which is also how it appears to this (I happily admit) non-genuinely-great mind: all it is demonstrating is that English is not a formal language.