Dr. Dennis E. Johnson
Dr. Johnson is Professor of Practical Theology at Westminster Seminary California, where he has taught since 1982. He also serves as Associate Pastor of New Life Presbyterian Church, in Escondido.
A graduate of Westmont College (B.A.), Westminster Theological Seminary (M.Div.; Th.M.), and Fuller Theological Seminary (Ph.D.), Dr. Johnson pas- tored Orthodox Presbyterian churches in New Jersey, and California. After teaching New Testament for 16 years, he now teaches primarily preaching and ministry courses, in which he applies his background in biblical studies to the issues of ministry, the church, and the culture.
He has served as moderator of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church General Assembly and Presbytery of Southern California, moderator of South Coast Presbytery in the Presbyterian Church in America, member of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church Committee on Christian Education, and trustee of Covenant College. Dr. Johnson has preached and taught in Chad, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, Thailand, and the Ukraine.
He is the author of Triumph of the Lamb: A Commentary on Revelation; Let’s Study Acts; The Message of Acts in the History of Redemption; and Him We Proclaim: Preaching Christ from All the Scriptures, as well as articles and reviews in Westminster Theological Journal, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Journal of the Evangelical Homiletical Society, and Ligonier Ministries’ Tabletalk. He is the editor of Heralds of the King: Christ-centered Sermons in the Tradition of Edmund P. Clowney, and co-author (with Elyse Fitzpatrick) of Counsel from the Cross: Connecting Broken People to the Love of Christ. He has contributed essays to volumes such as The New Testament Student and Theology; Theonomy: A Reformed Critique; The Pattern of Sound Doctrine; and Covenant, Justification, and Pastoral Ministry: Essays by the Faculty of Westminster Seminary California. Dr. Johnson is a contributor to the Spirit of the Reformation Study Bible and the English Standard Version Study Bible. He also edited Foundations of Christian Education, a collection of addresses to Christian schoolteachers by Cornelius Van Til and Louis Berkhof.
Dr. Johnson and his wife, Jane, have four married chil- dren and fourteen grandchildren, whose families are scattered from Florida to Asia.