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Curriculum Vitae: Galen K. Johnson
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Go here to search for and read "The Conflicted Puritan Inheritance of John Bunyan's Political Writings."
Go here to read "The Protestant Reformers' Readings of Romans 9-11."
Go here to read "The Tribulation in Revelation and its Literary-Theological Milieu."
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Dr. Johnson is Assistant Professor of Theology and Assistant Director of Honors and Faculty Development at John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, and secretary for the Conference on Christianity and Literature. His first book, PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE: JOHN BUNYAN ON SELF, COMMUNITY, AND CHRISTIAN FAITH, was published in December 2003 by Paternoster Press. His second book, HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF THE PURITANS, was published in the summer of 2007 by Scarecrow Press. Ordering information for both can be found at amazon.com.
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Contact Information/Education/Experience
Dr. Galen K. Johnson
802 Amanda Drive
Siloam Springs, Arkansas 72761
Office: (254) 238-8631
Email: GJohnson@jbu.edu
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY, Waco, TX
Ph.D. in Church History (2002)
PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, Princeton, NJ
Master of Divinity (1995)
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY, Winston-Salem, NC
Bachelor of Arts, Religion Major (1992)
Summa cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
2002-pres.: JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY, Siloam Springs, AR:
Associate Professor of Theology & Co-Director of Faculty Development
Teach undergraduate courses History of the Christian Church I & II; Seminar in Theology; Introduction to Philosophy; Philosophy of the Christian Faith; Essentials of Evangelical Theology; and M. A. in Ministry course, Christian Theology (2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-2006 Who's Who Among America's Teachers; 2004-2005 JBU Alpha Chi Honors Society Teacher of the Year; 2005-2006 Faculty Excellence Award Winner: Teacher of the Year)
2001-2002: Coordinator of Teaching Fellows Program and Instructor in Religion, BAYLOR UNIVERSITY, Waco, TX: Taught "Survey of the Bible" and gave lectures in church history, theology, and literature courses
2000-2002: Adjunct Instructor in Religion, McLENNAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Waco, TX: Taught survey courses in Old Testament and New Testament (2001 NISOD Teaching Excellence Medallion winner; 2001-2002 Who's Who Among America's Teachers)
1998: Emo F.J. Van Halsema Fellowship, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI
1996-1998: Adjunct Instructor in Religion, DAVIDSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Lexington, NC: Taught survey courses in Old Testament and New Testament
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Publications
2008
Review: "Bunyan and the Politics of Grace," by Paul Stevens, Opening Plenary Session of the Fifth Triennial Conference of the International John Bunyan Society, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. The Recorder 14 (Spring 2008): 3.
2007
Book, Historical Dictionary of the Puritans (with Charles S. Pastoor) (Rowman and Littlefield/Scarecrow Press).
Review: Grace Overwhelming: John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress, and the Extremes of the Baptist Mind, by Anne Dunan-Page. The Recorder 13, Spring, 13.
2006
Review: For All the Saints: Evangelical Theology and Christian Spirituality, edited by Timothy George and Alister McGrath. Calvin Theological Journal 41:1, April, 179-181.
2005
Article, "Of Bowels and Bigotry: Reading John Wesley's Editions of John Bunyan's Fictions." Archiv fur das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 242:1, 40-57.
Review: The Portable Bunyan: A Transnational History of The Pilgrim's Progress, by Isabel Hofmeyr. Christianity and Literature 54:2, Winter, 287-289.
Article, "Depictions of the Fall Compared in Milton's Paradise Lost and Bunyan's The Holy War." Baptist Quarterly 41, April, 80-91.
Article, "The Tribulation in Revelation and its Literary-Theological Milieu." Journal of Greco-Roman Judaism and Christianity 2, 52-75 (reprinted with the same pagination in a volume with the same title as the journal, ed. Stanley E. Porter, Matthew Brook O'Donnell, and Wendy Porter [Sheffield, England: Sheffield Phoenix Press, November 2005].
2004
Review: Graceful Reading: Theology and Narrative in the Writings of John Bunyan, by Michael Davies. Calvin Theological Journal 39:1, April, 196-197.
Article, "William Carey's Muslim Encounter in India." Baptist History and Heritage 39:2, Spring, 100-108.
Article, "The Protestant Reformers' Readings of Romans 9-11, with Modern Critical Response." Quodlibet: Online Journal of Christian Theology and Philosophy 6:1 (January-March 2004): http:www.quodlibet.net/johnson-reformers.shtml.
2003
Book, Prisoner of Conscience: John Bunyan on Self, Community and Christian Faith (Carlisle, England: Paternoster Press).
Review: Pilgrimage: The English Experience from Becket to Bunyan, ed. Colin Morris and Peter Roberts. Fides et Historia 35:2, Summer/Fall, 163-165.
Review: Glimpses of Glory: John Bunyan and English Dissent, by Richard L. Greaves, and Graceful Reading: Theology and Narrative in the Works of John Bunyan, by Michael Davies. Christianity and Literature 52:4, Summer, 577-581.
Article, "The Conflicted Puritan Inheritance of John Bunyan's Political Writings." Baptist History and Heritage 38:2, Spring, 103-115.
Review: John Bunyan: Reading Dissenting Writing, ed. N. H. Keeble. The Recorder 9, Spring, 12-13.
2002
Article, "Suicide and the Keys of Escape in Bunyan and Donne." Bunyan Studies 10, 46-64.
Review: The Key in the Window: Marginal Notes in Bunyan's Narratives, by Maxine Hancock. Christianity and Literature 51:4, Summer, 670-673.
2001
Review: Milton and the Preaching Arts, by Jameela Lares; The Hidden Smile of God: The Fruit of Affliction in the Lives of John Bunyan, William Cowper, and David Brainerd, by John Piper; John Newton and the English Evangelical Tradition, by D. Bruce Hindmarsh. Perspectives in Religious Studies 28:2, Summer, 191-194.
Article, "St. Francis and the Sultan: A Historical and Critical Reassessment." Mission Studies 18:2, 146-164.
Review: Privatization of the Christian Faith: Mission, Social Ethics, and the South African Baptists, by Louise Kretzschmar. Mission Studies 18:1, 204-205.
Review: Apocalypse How? Baptist Movements During the English Revolution, by Mark R. Bell. Journal of Church and State 43:2, Spring, 361-362.
Article, "Graduate Teaching Opportunities: Charting the Gap Between Catalog and Classroom." Religious Studies News 16:1, Winter, 20.
2000
Article, "Muhammad and Ideology in Medieval Christian Literature." Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 11:3, October, 333-346.
Review: Richard Sibbes: Puritanism and Calvinism in Late Elizabethan and Early Stuart England, by Mark E. Dever; Bunyan and Authority: The Rhetoric of Dissent and the Legitimation Crisis in Seventeenth- Century England, by Stuart Sim and David Walker; Pilgrim Pathways: Essays in Baptist History in Honour of B. R. White, ed. by William H. Brackney and Paul S. Fiddes with John H. Y. Briggs. Perspectives in Religious Studies 27:3, Fall, 322-326.
Review: Augustine: The Scattered and Gathered Self, by Sandra Lee Dixon. Christianity and Literature 50:1, Autumn, 154-157.
Article, "Church and Conscience in William Langland and Julian of Norwich." Fides et Historia 32:2, Summer/Fall, 51-66.
Article, "'Be Not Extream:' The Limits of Theory in Reading John Bunyan." Christianity and Literature 49:4, Summer, 447-464.
Review: Awakening Words: John Bunyan and the Language of Community, edited by David Gay, James G. Randall, and Arlette Zinck. Christianity and Literature 49:4, Summer, 540-543.
Article, "Supra or Infra? Clarifying the Scholarly Confusion Over John Bunyan's Doctrine of Election." The Recorder 6:1, Spring, 6-7.
1999
Article, "John Calvin, Huguenot?" Koinonia Journal 11:1, Fall, 194-215.
Article, "The Development of John Calvin's Doctrine of Infant Baptism in Reaction to the Anabaptists." The Mennonite Quarterly Review 73:4, October, 803-823.
Review: Pilgrimage to Puritanism: History and Theology of the Marian Exiles in Geneva, 1555-1560, by Dan G. Danner. Journal of Church and State 41:4, Autumn, 837-838.
Review: Thomas Cranmer: A Life, by Diarmaid MacCullough; Sermons at Court: Politics and Religion in Elizabethan and Jacobean Preaching, by Peter E. McCullough; Primitivism, Radicalism, and the Lamb's War: The Baptist-Quaker Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England, by T. L. Underwood. Perspectives in Religious Studies 26:1, Spring, 96-100.
1997
Review: Princeton Seminary, Volume 1: Faith and Learning (1812-1868), by David B. Calhoun; John Calvin's Exegesis of the Old Testament, by David L. Puckett; What is Theological Exegesis? Interpretation and Use of Scripture in Barth's Doctrine of Election, by Mary Kathleen Cunningham; The Knowledge of God in Calvin's Theology, 3rd ed., by Edward A. Dowey. Perspectives in Religious Studies 24:2, Summer, 209-14.
Article, "The Case that Baptists Can Claim Bunyan." The Recorder 4:1, Spring, 17-19.
1996
Article, "Teaching The Pilgrim's Progress." The Recorder 3:2, Winter, 18-20.
1995
Review: A Tinker and a Poor Man: John Bunyan and His Church, 1628-1688, by Christopher Hill; Bunyan the Christian, by Gordon Wakefield; Discourses of Martyrdom in English Literature, 1563-1694, by John R. Knott. Perspectives in Religious Studies 22:3, Fall, 318-22.
Review: The Theology of Karl Barth: Exposition and Interpretation, by Hans Urs von Balthasar; Basic Christian Doctrine, by John H. Leith; Continuing the Reformation: Essays in Modern Religious Thought, by B. A. Gerrish. Perspectives in Religious Studies 22:1, Spring, 83-7.
1993
Review: A Handbook for Christian Philosophy, by L. Russ Bush; Our Idea of God: An Introduction to Philosophical Theology, by Thomas V. Morris. Perspectives in Religious Studies 20:2, Summer, 196-8.
1992
Review: The Death Penalty Debate, by H. Wayne House and John Howard Yoder; Reformed Spirituality: An Introduction for Believers, by Howard L. Rice; Faith Seeking Understanding: An Introduction for Christian Theology, Daniel L. Migliore. Perspectives in Religious Studies 19:3, Fall, 343-7.
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Scholarly Conference Presentations
2008
"Negotiating the Chronological Boundaries of Puritanism in England and America." Paper presented at the AAR section on the History of Christianity and the Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, Irving, TX, March 9.
2007
"The Pilgrim's Progress in the History of American Public Discourse." Paper presented at the International John Bunyan Society Triennial Conference, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, August 16.
"Teaching The Pilgrim's Progress as Summa Theologiae Evangelicae." Panel presentation at the International John Bunyan Society Triennial Conference, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, August 16.
2006
"The Methodized Pilgrim's Progress." Paper presented at the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, Rexburg, ID, June 9.
"Allegory as Theology in The Pilgrim's Progress." Paper presented at the AAR section on Arts, Literature, and Religion at the Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, Irving, TX, March 4.
2005
"Bunyan, Donne, and the Seventeenth-Century Conversation About Suicide." Paper presented at the Southeast Conference on Christianity and Literature annual meeting, Campbellsville University, Campbellsville, KY, April 15.
2004
"Of Bowels and Bigotry: Reading John Wesley's Editions of John Bunyan's Fictions." Paper presented at the International John Bunyan Society Triennial Conference, DeMontfort University, Bedford, England, September 4.
"Certainty and Doubt in John Bunyan's The Holy War." Paper presented at the Midwest Conference on Christianity and Literature annual meeting, Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion, IN, March 19.
"The Symbiotic Relationship of Thinking and Believing in St. Augustine's Confessions." Paper presented at the AAR section on the History of Christianity at the Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, Irving, TX, March 6.
2003
"The Pilgrim's Progress, Part II, as Baptist Sacramental Theology." Paper presented at the Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature annual meeting, John Brown University Siloam Springs, AR, September 26.
"An Augustinian Model for Conceiving and Measuring the Influence of Christian Higher Education." Paper presented at the Second Annual Critical Issues Conference of the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA, June 20.
"The Book of Revelation as the Code of Christian History in Jonathan Edwards' A History of the Work of Redemption." Paper presented at the AAR section on the History of Christianity at the Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, Irving, TX, March 16.
2002
"Things Already Attempted: Echoes of Paradise Lost in John Bunyan's The Holy War." Paper presented at the Seventh International Milton Symposium, University of South Carolina at Beaufort, Beaufort, SC, June 6.
"The Augustinian/Humanist Divide in Early Lutheran Exegesis of Romans 9-11." Paper presented at American Philosophical Association meeting on "God, Free Will, and Determinism," McMurry University, Abilene, TX, March 23.
"Muhammad Against the Muslims in Dante and Langland." Paper presented at the AAR section on Arts, Literature and Religion at the Southwestern Commission on Religious Studies, Irving, TX, March 10.
2001
"Conscience and Individualism in Bunyan's Anti-Quaker Writings." Paper presented at the Triennial Conference of the International John Bunyan Society, hosted by Kent State University, Cleveland, OH, October 11.
"Amish: The Isolated Community." Address given at honors forum of Phi Theta Kappa, McLennan Community College, Waco, TX, October 9.
"Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners: Bunyan Between Luther and Modernity." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature, Baylor University, Waco, TX, September 28.
"Evaluating William Carey's Muslim Program in India." Paper presented at the AAR section on the History of Christianity at the Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, Irving, TX, March 18.
2000
"John Calvin's Non-Calvinist Resistance Theory." Paper presented at the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, Salt Lake City, UT, May 12.
"The Debate Over Calvinism in Southern Baptist Newspapers, 1994-1999." Paper presented at the AAR section on the History of Christianity at the Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, Irving, TX, March 5.
"Ulrich Zwingli's Determinism." Paper presented at Baylor University Scholarship Day, Waco, TX, February 23.
"A Theological Corrective to Various Critical Studies of John Bunyan." Paper presented at Clement T. Goode Graduate Symposium, Baylor University Department of English, Waco, TX, February 11.
1999
"A Reformed Christian Response to Religious Pluralism." Paper presented at Quodlibetal Forum at Truett Theological Seminary, Waco, TX, April 14.
"The Development of John Calvin's Doctrine of Infant Baptism in Reaction to the Anabaptists." Paper presented at the AAR section on the History of Christianity at the Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, Irving, TX, March 7.
"The Tribulation in Revelation and its Milieu." Paper presented at inaugural Theological Scholarship Day, Baylor University, Waco, TX, February 6.
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