Division of Biblical Studies
Faculty

Dr. Galen K. Johnson
Associate Professor of Theology and Co-Director of Faculty Development

Galen K. Johnson teaches Christian history, theology, and philosophy in the undergraduate and M. A. programs of the Biblical Studies Division. He holds the PhD from Baylor University, a Master of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wake Forest University. Before coming to JBU, he taught Old and New Testament courses at Baylor, McLennan Community College (Texas), and Davidson County Community College (North Carolina). He was awarded a Teacher of Excellence medallion by McLennan Community College in 2001, won JBU's "Rookie of the Year" honor in 2005, received the Faculty Excellence Award from JBU in 2006, and has been honored four different times by the publication, Who's Who Among America's Teachers. Dr. Johnson has supported many students in their academic and vocational lives, including a number who have shared their research from his classes at academic conferences or who have gone on to graduate school. In his teaching at JBU, Dr. Johnson is sensitive to the concerns and demands of church ministry, for he has served as the pastor of Victory Baptist Church in Thomasville, North Carolina, and Blue Ridge Baptist Church in Marlin, Texas, and he has preached weekly for Grace Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Fayetteville, Arkansas, since January 2004.

As of 2006, Dr. Johnson has agreed to be more actively involved as assistant director of JBU's Honors Scholars Program and its Institute for Learning Enhancement. Dr. Johnson's scholarly interests lie primarily in the Protestant Reformation and Puritan movements of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He has published numerous articles in journals such as Christianity and Literature, The Mennonite Quarterly Review, Bunyan Studies, Baptist History and Heritage, Baptist Quarterly, Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism, Mission Studies, Fides et Historia, Perspectives in Religious Studies, and Journal of Church and State. In December 2003, his book Prisoner of Conscience: John Bunyan on Self, Community and Christian Faith was published by England's Paternoster Press, and a second book, entitled A Dictionary of the Puritans and co-authored by Charles Pastoor, is scheduled to appear in print from Rowman and Littlefield Press in the near future. Meanwhile, Dr. Johnson serves as the secretary for the Conference on Christianity and Literature. A full listing of Dr. Johnson's academic publications and conference presentations, can be found by visiting his academic home page.

Dr. Johnson and his wife Lori married in 1995, and their first child, Caroline, was born in 2006. Their hobbies include reading, sports, visiting historic sites, and being entertained by their chihuahua, Winston.