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The Rev'd Joseph Johnson

     A native of Greenwood, SC, he and his wife Toby are graduates of Emmanuel College (BS in Religion); he is also an alumnus of Erskine Theological Seminary (Master of Arts in Theological Studies, '99  and Master of Divinity in 2004).  He is writing his dissertation for his Doctor of Education degree from Liberty University, concentrating on curriculum philosophy.  They have a daughter, Abby and a son, Benji.  Toby is a homeschooling Mother, and full-time Mom!  Rev. Johnson is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society and the Association of Classical and Christian Schools.  A traditionalist and perennialist, below are some major influences.

     Some of his favorite authors, philosophers and theologians are and have been John Calvin (of course), Martin Luther, Cornelius Van Til, Douglas Wilson, CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, NT Wright, FF Bruce, St. Augustine, St. Aquinas, Jonathan Edwards, Abraham Kuyper, Reinhold and Richard Neibuhr, Emil Brunner, Rudolph Bultmann, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, SA Kierkegaard, FDE Schleiermacher, Malcolm Muggeridge, FW Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, John Owen, GK Chesterton, Francis Schaeffer, Thomas Watson, Klaas Schilder, John Murray, John W. Nevin, Henri Nouwen, Ravi Zacharias, JI Packer, John Piper, Ben Witherington III, Peter Kreeft, Karl Rahner, Stanley Hauerwas, Walter Bruggemann, Jurgen Moltmann, RL Dabney, Alister McGrath, Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. 

     His heroes are his father (Ben Johnson, Jr.), the Martyrdom of Isaiah, St. Thomas, St. Paul, St. Polycarp of Smyrna, St. Iranaeus of Antioch, John Calvin, John Knox, Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, any Jew that was martyred in or survived Ha Shoah, and his favorite Presidents were John Adams and his son John Q. Adams.  Some of his favorite preachers as of late have been St. Peter, St. Paul, St. Stephen, St. Polycarp, John Calvin, Charles Spurgeon, Martin Loyd-Jones, John Piper, Malcolm X, William Augustus Jones, Jonathan Edwards, Ebenezer Erskine, Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Sinclair Ferguson, Alistair Begg and EV Hill.    

      Pastor Johnson enjoys coffee, bourbon, sweet tea, theology, philosophy, yard work and smoking his pipe.  You may catch up with his random genius on his blog, "A Higher Orthodoxy".

Some Thoughts for the Journey . . .

   “Oh, were this thought deeply impressed upon our minds, that we are subject to a law which no more permits the children of God to differ among themselves than the kingdom of heaven to be divided, how earnestly should we cultivate brotherly kindness! How should we dread every kind of animosity, if we duly reflected that all who separate us from brethren, estrange us from the kingdom of God! And yet, strangely enough, while we forget the duties which brethren owe to each other, we go on boasting that we are the sons of God.” (John Calvin, Commentary on Ephesians)

And we reformed types insist on calling ourselves “Calvinists” . . . may God heal the divisions in His Church . . .

In Grace,

Pastor Johnson

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