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Junius Johnson is an independent scholar, writer, musician, speaker, and teacher. The author of several books and articles, his work explores the intersections of Christian theology with philosophy, art, and meaning. Deeply devoted to story and the power of music, he is greatly concerned with the imagination, its use, and its destiny in the human encounter with God.
Dr. Johnson is a dynamic and engaging speaker, especially skilled at casting a vision for educators. He brings subtlety, rigor, and humor to keynote lectures and experience, wisdom, and inspiration to faculty enrichment events.
Dr. Johnson also offers real-time online courses in Latin and theological studies, and coaching for graduate students on the various stages of degree completion and the early stages of a scholarly career.
Go here to get information about the next Latin Boot Camps!
I recently wrote a piece for Credo magazine entitled “Beauty in the Darkness: A Surprising Encounter with God’s Omnipresence.” You can read it here.
I wrote this article for the Living Church in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis, when churches around the world were closed due to government orders for citizens to remain at home. In it I reflect on the practice of spiritual communion: to receive the Eucharist even when one is not able to receive the elements.
Read the whole article here.
I was invited by the Chesterton House to give their annual Beimfohr-Neuss lecture in 2019. I spoke of the role of wonder in a life worth living.
The video is available here.
Another conversation on movies, with a wider scope. Listen to my conversation with Forma’s Heidi White here.
This book answers the question: “What is a theological account of the experience of the beautiful?” In the course of keying this experience to a memory of God that we have coded into our hearts, the discussion ranges over analogy, language, metaphor, semiotics, sacraments, and icons. What emerges is a theology of the image of […]
This is a review essay of Jay Hammond’s translation of Bonaventure’s Collationes in Hexaemeron. I explain the importance of this text within the Bonaventurean corpus before assessing Hammond’s accomplishment with the translation. The full text is available here.
This article expands upon elements of Bonaventure’s Christology to develop an account of the Eucharist inspired by Bonaventure’s understanding of the person of Christ. Originally a conference paper, it will appear later this year in a volume of proceedings of that conference. This article appears in Friar, Teacher, Minister, Bishop, Essays in Celebration of the […]
Go here to get information about the next Latin Boot Camps!
This January, I will be offering a 12 week course, taught by Zoom, on the imagination. Read more and register here.
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