Christianity, Alchemy, Hermeticism, and Being a Biodynamic Farmer

Lately, I’ve been working on entries for a dictionary of Christianity. As ambivalent as I am about the entire “definition thing” (a product of my training in phenomenology and the insidious influence of Jacques Derrida in my intellectual make-up, no doubt), it has been a fun project. Of course, and not surprisingly, I was given the allegedly “weird stuff” to edit or create: Jakob Boehme, Paracelsus, sophiology, enthusiasm, Familists, kabbala, magic, animals, alchemy, and hermeticism. Since my...