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The Rev'd Joseph Johnson
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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,
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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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