The question of how many angels can dance on the head of a pin is still a vivid symbolization of at least three questions in physics and mathematics, which is to say, in philosophy and theology:

1- What is the relationship between the immaterial and the material (the question arising in any communication by or about God in any kind or form)?

2- Does the immaterial have attributes (“accidents” in the language of most Greek, Patristic, Scholastic and Reformation discourse), or in geometrical language, how many lines can pass through a point (the question arising in any human interaction with Divinity in any kind or form)?

3- How much dynamic activity can a base or a fixed object sustain before it incinerates or in some other manner ceases to exist (the question arising in any interaction between couples of any kind or form)?

To recast the question in another vivid symbolization, one could ask: In how small a space, how rapidly and how often can the Divine Couple dance without the universe or them ceasing to exist or them becoming incommunicado, effectively ceasing to exist, with respect to humanity and specifically the soteriological process for which humanity thirsts and upon which humanity utterly depends?

AMDG