I connect the concept of “face” to Christology and the concept of “prosopon”.

2. How Orthodox Christology can justify a perennialism that is indistinguishable from a Christian Polytheism. The result is a Christology that is structurally similar to Ibn Arabi’s semi-perspectival understanding of “gods” and all of manifest reality as the “Face of God”.

This concern flows out of someone else’s substack (linked in the post) concerning the limits of physics and “theorization” in general.

It never ceases to amaze me how we have culturally memory-holed the fact that before c. 1920 it was perfectly normal to believe seriously that intelligent life existed on other planets in the Solar System