William Stacy Johnson, Ph.D.

Arthur M. Adams Chair of Systematic Theology

Curriculum Vita

Website
http://www.atimetoembrace.com

Education

Academic Experience

Other Experience

Honors and Grants

• Sabbatical Fellowship from Center of Theological Inquiry, 2002-03.
• ATS Lilly Faculty Fellowship Recipient, 1998-99.
• Invited Participant, Quadrennial International Congress of Calvin Research, 1994-2006.
• John M. Templeton Foundation Grant for Science and Religion Course.
• Lilly Endowment, Grant for editing the unpublished works of H. Richard Niebuhr,1992-93 [Received jointly at Harvard with Richard R. Niebuhr].
• Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, 1991-92.
• Harvard University Fellowships: 1988-89, 1989-90, 1990-91.
• Walter W. Moore Graduate Fellowship, Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, 1988-90.
• W. T. Thompson Scholarship, Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, 1985-88.
• Full Tuition Merit Scholarships, 1978-81, Wake Forest University School of Law.

Ordination

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), 1988.

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Books and Editions

Crisis and Call to Leadership in the Abrahamic Traditions (Editor with Peter Ochs), Forthcoming.

A Time to Embrace: Same Gender Relationships in Religion, Law, and Politics.   Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2006.

The Mystery of God: Karl Barth and the Postmodern Foundations of Theology.   Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1997.

H. Richard Niebuhr, Theology, History and Culture: Major Unpublished Writings.   (Editor) (Foreword by Richard R. Niebuhr).   New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.

Reformed Reader: A Sourcebook in Christian Theology, Volume 1, Classical Beginnings: 1519-1799.   (Editor with John H. Leith). Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1993.

Calvin Studies IV, Papers Presented at a Colloquium on Calvin Studies at Davidson College, January 15-16, 1988.   (Editor with John H. Leith).   Private Printing, May, 1988.

Church Committee Publications

A Season of Discernment: The Final Report of the Theological Task Force on the Peace, Unity, and Purity of the Church, 2006.   (Jointly authored).    

Articles

"The 'Reality' of Faith: Critical Remarks on Section 63 of Die Kirchliche Dogmatik, in The Reality of Faith in Theology, ed. Gerrit Neven, Forthcoming.

"Reformed and Ever Reforming: Six Theses toward the Revisioning of the Church," in Presbyterians Being Reformed: Reflections on What the Church Needs Today, ed. Robert H. Bullock (Louisville, KY: Geneva Press, 2006), 79-89.

"Same Gender Relationships in the Church: Seven Theological Viewpoints,"(2005). http://www.pcusa.org/peaceunitypurity/finalreport/seventheologicalviewpoints.pdf    

"Jesus' Cry, Our Cry and God's," in Lament: Reclaiming Practices in Pulpit, Pew, and Public Square, eds. Sally A. Brown and Patrick D. Miller (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2005).

"On the Ecclesia de Eucharistia: A Reformed Perspective," in Pro Ecclesia, 12/4 (2003): 414-16.

"Reading the Scriptures Faithfully in a Postmodern Age," in The Art of Reading Scripture, ed. Ellen F. Davis and Richard B. Hays (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2003), 109-124.

"Theology and the Church's Mission: Catholic, Orthodox, Evangelical, and Reformed," in Reformed Theology: Identity and Ecumenicity, ed. Wallace M. Alston, Jr. and Michael Welker (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2003), 65-81.

"Religion, Violence, and Genocide," in Encyclopedia of Religion and War, ed. Gabriel Palmer Fernandez and Iain MacLean (Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing Group, 2003).

"Probing the 'Meaning' of September 11," The Princeton Seminary Bulletin, Volume XXIII, No. 1 (New Series, 2002): 36-53.

"Making Grace Real: Barth and Beyond,"   in The Christian Century 118/14 (May 2, 2001): 16-20.

"Rethinking Theology: A Postmodern, Post-Holocaust, Post-Christendom Endeavor," in Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 55/1 (January 2001): 5-18 .

"Karl Barth," in Historical Handbook of Major Biblical Interpreters, ed. D. McKim (Downers Grove, Illinois: Intervarsity Press, 1998), 433-439.

"God's Ordering, Providing, and Caring: Grace as 'Gift of Death,'" in Theology Today   54/1 (April 1997): 29-42.

"The Doctrine of the Triune God Today," Insights 11/1 (1995): 3-19 .

"On the Importance of Being Theological," Insights 11/1 (1995): 20-24.

H. Richard Niebuhr, "The Limitation of Power and Religious Liberty," ed. W. S. Johnson, in Religion and Values in Public Life 3/2 (1995): 1-4.

"The Reign of God in Theological Perspective," Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology, 47/2 (April, 1993): 127-39.

Articles in The Presbyterian Outlook:

"Beyond Birmingham: What Next?" (With Jack Haberer), Forthcoming.

"Our Tortured, War-torn Conscience," The Presbyterian Outlook 188/33 (October 9, 2006): 9, 24.

  "What Constitutes the Church in its Confession?" The Presbyterian Outlook 184/7 (February 25, 2002): 11-12, 15.

"Toward a Confessing Church: The Key Question," The Presbyterian Outlook 184/5 (February 11, 2002): 11-12.

"Revisiting the Confessional Nature of the Church," The Presbyterian Outlook 184/4 (February 4, 2002): 1, 11-16.

"Getting Serious About Jesus Christ," The Presbyterian Outlook 183/37 (November 5, 2001): 15, 16.

"Theology in a Time of Trauma," The Presbyterian Outlook 183/36 (October 29, 2001): 7, 15.

"Considering the Case for a Theological Commission," The Presbyterian Outlook 183/24 (June 25, 2001): 2, 14.

"Unbounded Criticism," The Presbyterian Outlook 183/22 (June 11, 2001): 15-16.

"In Recent Years," The Presbyterian Outlook 183/21 (June 4, 2001): 11, 13.

"Equally Yoked," The Presbyterian Outlook 183/20 (May 28, 2001): 11-12.

"Regaining Perspective," The Presbyterian Outlook 183/19 (May 21, 2001): 11-12.

"Confessional Witness and Its Challenge," The Presbyterian Outlook 183/18 (May 14, 2001): 1, 8-9, 17.

"Turning Point," The Presbyterian Outlook 183/17 (May 7, 2001): 11-12.

"Them Bones," The Presbyterian Outlook 183/14 (April 9, 2001): 12-13.

"Mingled Down," The Presbyterian Outlook 183/13 (April 2, 2001): 9.

"Season of Sorrows," The Presbyterian Outlook 183/12 (March 26, 2001):   8-9.

"Deploying the Queen," The Presbyterian Outlook 183/10 (March 12, 2001): 10-11.

"Keeping the Feast," The Presbyterian Outlook 183/9 (March 5, 2001): 10-11.

"The Freedom Beyond Whispers," The Presbyterian Outlook 183/8 (February 26, 2001): 10-11.

"For the Long Haul," The Presbyterian Outlook 183/7 (February 19, 2001) 10-11.

"A Merciful Dissonance," The Presbyterian Outlook 183/6 (February 12, 2001): 10-11, 15.

"The Ecumenical Imperative of the Gospel," The Presbyterian Outlook 183/5 (February 5, 2001): 10-11, 14.

"The Seriousness of God," The Presbyterian Outlook 183/4 (January 29, 2001): 10-11.

"The Heresy of Division," The Presbyterian Outlook 183/3 (January 22, 2001): 13, 16.

"Transcending Boundaries," The Presbyterian Outlook 183/1 (January 1-8, 2001):    9, 18.

"Down for the Count," The Presbyterian Outlook 182/43 (December 18-25, 2000):   7.

"Advent and Apocalypse," The Presbyterian Outlook 182/42 (December 4-11, 2000): 8-10.

"What Are We Waiting For?" The Presbyterian Outlook 182/41 (November 27, 2000): 12-13.

"The Promise of Advent," The Presbyterian Outlook 182/40 (November 20, 2000):   10-12.

"A Modest Proposal," The Presbyterian Outlook 181/12 (April 5, 1999): 6-7.

"Bygones," The Presbyterian Outlook 181/6 (February 15, 1999): 11.

"The Voyage into Humanity," The Presbyterian Outlook 181/5 (February 8, 1999):   11, 17.

"At the Brink," The Presbyterian Outlook 181/4 (February 1, 1999): 11.

"Enter the Nephilim," The Presbyterian Outlook 181/3 (January 25, 1999): 11-12.

"The Triune God of the Councils," The Presbyterian Outlook 181/2 (January 18, 1999): 11, 18.

"Nicaea II," The Presbyterian Outlook 181/1 (January 4-11, 1999): 10,11.

"Constantinople II," The Presbyterian Outlook 180/41 (December 7, 1998): 10-11.                        

"Ephesus," The Presbyterian Outlook 180/40 (November 30, 1998):   8-9.

"Constantinople I," The Presbyterian Outlook 180/39 (November 23, 1998): 11.

"Nicaea," The Presbyterian Outlook 180/38 (November 16, 1998): 12.

"Faith and Reason," The Presbyterian Outlook 180/37 (November 9, 1998): 12.

"Betting the Ranch," The Presbyterian Outlook 180/36 (November 2, 1998): 11-12.

"At the Crossroads," The Presbyterian Outlook 180/35 (October 26, 1998): 14-15.

"Decently and in Order," The Presbyterian Outlook 180/34 (October 19, 1998): 9.

"Religion and the Rule of Law," The Presbyterian Outlook 180/33 (October 12, 1998): 11.

"Been There," The Presbyterian Outlook 180/32 (October 5, 1998): 11-12.

"Calvin, Alive and Well in Korea," The Presbyterian Outlook 180/31 (September 28, 1998): 10-11.

"Theological Education Today," The Presbyterian Outlook 180/30 (September 21, 1998): 12.

"On Morality, God, and Mr. Clinton," The Presbyterian Outlook 180/29 (September 14, 1998): 13.

"Friar Martin's Musings," The Presbyterian Outlook 180/28 (September 7, 1998):   11.

"The Elusive Center and the Church's Mission," The Presbyterian Outlook 180/25 (July 20-27, 1998): 13-14.

"Putting Aside the Gloves," The Presbyterian Outlook 180/24 (July 6-13, 1998): 11.

"Needed: A Constructive Orthodoxy," The Presbyterian Outlook 180/23 (June 29, 1998): 11-13.

"Sheer Folly," The Presbyterian Outlook 180/22 (June 22, 1998): 13-14.

"Entreat Me Not to Leave," The Presbyterian Outlook 180/21 (June 15, 1998): 13, 19.

"Desire for the Friendship of God," The Presbyterian Outlook 180/20 (June 8, 1998):   12-13.

"When Friendship Breaks Down," The Presbyterian Outlook 180/19 (June 1, 1998): 14-15.

"The Vital Life of Friendship," The Presbyterian Outlook 180/18 (May 25, 1998): 13.

"To the Friend...Loyalty," The Presbyterian Outlook 180/17 (May 9, 1998): 9-10.

"Rachel Weeping," The Presbyterian Outlook 180/15 (April 27, 1998): 9-10.

"Never Again," The Presbyterian Outlook 180/14 (April 20, 1998): 11-12.

  "Calvin Who?" The Presbyterian Outlook 180/13 (April 13, 1998): 11.

  "The Flowering of the Cross," The Presbyterian Outlook 180/12 (April 6, 1998): 9.

  "Gazing Ahead," The Presbyterian Outlook 180/11 (March 23-30, 1998): 11.

  "By Threat of Force," The Presbyterian Outlook 180/10 (March 16, 1998):   9.

"Fast and Loose," The Presbyterian Outlook 180/9 (March 9, 1998): 11-12.

  "Crucified Dead and Buried," The Presbyterian Outlook 180/8 (March 2, 1998): 11-12.

"To Honor the Covenant of Marriage," The Presbyterian Outlook 180/7 (February 23, 1998): 11-12 .

"A Confessing Church," The Presbyterian Outlook 180/6 (February 16, 1998): 11.

"For the Sake of the Gospel." The Presbyterian Outlook 180/5 (February 9, 1998):    13.

"Barmen!" The Presbyterian Outlook 180/4 (February 2, 1998): 11.

"A/Mending a Fractured Church," The Presbyterian Outlook 180/3 (January 26, 1998): 13.

"Politicizing Ordination," The Presbyterian Outlook 180/2 (January 19, 1998): 10.

"The Church Needs a Word of Grace for Persons Who Are Homosexual," The Presbyterian Outlook (January 5-12, 1998): 2, 6.

"Between Traditionalism and Revisionism: Praying for a Third Way," The Presbyterian Outlook 177/37 (October 23-30, 1995): 14-16.

"Our Work and God's," The Presbyterian Outlook (June 12, 1995): 8-9.

Book Reviews

Jesus, the Bible, and Homosexuality: Explode the Myths, Heal the Church, Jack Rogers; The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics, Robert A. J. Gagnon, in Theology Today 63/2 (October, 2006): 386-94.

The Unaccommodated Calvin: Studies in the Foundations of a Theological Tradition, by Richard C. Muller, in The Institute for Reformed Theology Bulletin.

Toward the Future of Reformed Theology: Tasks, Topics, Traditions, edited by   David Willis and Michael Welker, in Theology Today 58/3 (October, 2001): 482-85.

Authentic Transformation: A New Vision of Christ and Culture, by Glen H. Stassen, D. M. Yeager, and John Howard Yoder, in Cross Currents, 49/3 (Fall, 1999): 416-420.

The Domestication of Transcendence, by William C. Placher, in Theology Today, 54/1 (April 1997): 94-96.

Serenity, Courage, Wisdom: The Enduring Legacy of Reinhold Niebuhr,   by Henry B. Clark, in Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology, 51/1 (January, 1997): 102-103.  

The God Who Acts: Philosophical and Theological Explorations, edited by Thomas F. Tracy, in Theology Today 53/2 (July, 1996): 248-250.

In Face of Mystery: A Constructive Theology, by Gordon D. Kaufman, in Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology, 50/1 (January, 1996): 76-78.  

The Fabric of Theology, by Richard Lints, in Theology Today 52/2 (July, 1995): 294-96.

 The Culture of Disbelief, by Stephen Carter, in Harvard Divinity Bulletin: Religion and Values in Public Life 2/1 (Fall, 1993), 5.

Our Naming of God: Problems and Prospects of God- talk Today, edited by Carl A. Braaten, in Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology, Vol. 45, No. 2 (April, 1991): 208-210.

Whose Justice? Which Rationality? by Alisdair   MacIntyre; Ethics After Babel: The Languages of Morals and Their Discontents, by Jeffrey Stout, in Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology, Vol. 44, No. 3 (June, 1990): 318-20.

The Philosophical Theology of Jonathan Edwards, by Sang Hyun Lee; America's Theologian: A Recommendation of Jonathan Edwards, by Robert W. Jenson; The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Volume 8: Ethical Writings, edited by Paul Ramsey, in Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology, Vol. 44, No. 2, (April, 1990): 218-20.

Faith of Our Fathers: Religion and the New Nation, by Edwin Gaustad, in Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology, Vol. 43, No. 4 (October, 1989): 437-38.

The Making of Modern German Christology: From the Enlightenment to Pannenberg, by Alister E. McGrath, in Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology, Vol. 42,   No. 2 (April, 1988): 200-01.

The Foundations of Bioethics, by H. Tristram Englehardt, Jr., in Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology, Vol. 41, No. 3 (July, 1987): 326-28.

Selected Lectures, Papers, and Addresses

Guest Preacher, Princeton University Chapel, February 4, 2007.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Address, Princeton Area Churches, Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church,   January 15, 2007.

Duerr Lecture Series, St. Philip Presbyterian Church, Houston, Texas, February 22-24, 2004.

The Hoon-Bullock Lectures, First Presbyterian Church, San Antonio, Texas, October 28-29, 2002.

Memorial Lectures, Government Street Presbyterian Church, Mobile, Alabama, October 21-23, 2002.

"Discerning Our Christian Identity," The 2002 Twitty Memorial Lectureship, Covenant Presbyterian Church, Charlotte, North Carolina, February 24-25, 2002.

"Faith in a Postmodern, Post-Holocaust, Post-Christendom World," The Rian Lectures, Princeton Theological Seminary, May 18-20, 2000.

"The Church in a Postmodern World," The Margaret Jarboe Lectures, Grace Presbyterian Church, Houston, Texas, October 1999.

"Reformed Theology in a Postdenominational Age," Scholar in Residence Lecture Series, First Presbyterian Church, Dallas, Texas, twice-weekly lectures from September to December, 1999.

"God's Ordering, Providing, and Caring for the World," Briarwood Distinguished Lectureship, Briarwood Presbyterian Church, Jackson, Mississippi, October, 1998.

"God's Grace as Mystery, Mercy, and Power," Convocation Address, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, September, 1997.

"Reformed Theology for the Twenty-first Century," Response to Alan Sell, Reformed Theology Group, American Academy of Religion, New Orleans, Louisiana, November, 1997.

"Theology of Vocation," Austin Seminary, an address for prospective theology students given each fall and spring, 1992-1997.

"Language About God," Presbyterian Synod of the Sun Tele-conferencing event, Spring, 1996.

"The Vocation of Higher Education," Ghost Ranch, Abuqui, New Mexico, August, 1996.

"Created to be Human," Lecture Series, First Presbyterian Church, Shreveport, Louisiana, August, 1996.

"Reformed Theology for Church Educators," Synod of the Sun, Austin, Texas, August 1995.

"Between Realism and Constructivism: H. Richard Niebuhr and the Anti-foundationalist Meaning of Revelation," a paper presented at the Southwest

Commission on Religious Studies, Dallas, Texas, March, 1995.

"The Person and Work of Jesus Christ," The Lay School of Theology, The Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest, Austin, Texas, Spring Term, 1995.

"Spirituality in the Public Arena," KLRU Television, Austin, Texas, "Austin At Issue," hosted by Tom Spencer, December, 1994.

"Vocative Existence: The Holy Spirit and the Christian Life in Karl Barth's Theology of Grace Alone," a paper presented at the November, 1993 meeting of the Karl Barth Society of North America, Washington, D.C.

"The Trinitarian Spirituality of Jonathan Edwards," a paper presented at the Sixth Colloquium on Calvin Studies at Davidson College in January, 1992.

Boards, Memberships, Consultations

Co-Chair (with Peter Ochs), Jewish, Christian, Muslim Scriptural Reasoning Group, Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, New Jersey, 2003-present.

President, Presbyterian Outlook Foundation, 2005-present.

Outside reader, Swarthmore College Honors Program in Religion, 2005-06.

Member, Workgroup in Constructive Theology, Vanderbilt University, 1998-present.

Member, Princeton-Kampen Consultation on Barth Studies, 2002-present.

Board of Directors, The Presbyterian Outlook Foundation, 1998-present.

Member, Task Force on the Peace, Unity and Purity of the Church (PCUSA), 2001-2006.

Member, Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, NJ, 2002-present.

Board of Directors, The Center for Barth Studies, Princeton, New Jersey, 1999-present.

Steering Committee, The Holocaust and the Arts, Austin, Texas, 1997-1999.

Member, The Karl Barth Society of North America, 1991-present.

Member, The American Academy of Religion, 1991-present.

Member, The International Schleiermacher Society, 1991-present.

Member, The Calvin Studies Society, 1988-present.

Steering Committee, American Academy of Religion Reformed Theology and History Group, 1992-2000.

Editorial Board, Geneva Press, Westminster John Knox Press, 1996-1999.

Advisory Council, Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology, 1996-2005.

Consultant, "Doctrines and Dogmas, Religious," Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1996.

Outside Reader, Zygon, The Journal of Religion, the Templeton Foundation.

Board of Trustees, "The Fund for the Explication and Application of Reformed Theology," Richmond, Virginia, 1993-1999.

Board of Directors, St. Matthew's Episcopal School, Austin, Texas, 1993-95.

Davidson College Alumni Admissions Program, 1983-85.

Fundraising, Davidson College, 1983-84; United Way, 1982-85.

Member, The North Carolina State Bar, 1981-present.      

Academic Committees

Princeton Theological Seminary
Elected Member, Faculty Development and Support Committee, 2006-present.
Member, Search Committee for DeVries Chair in Theology and Culture.
Chair, Search Committee for Luce Chair in Theology of Mission.
Member, Admissions Committee, 1999-2002, 2004-2005.

Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Search Committee for Director of Admissions, 1997-1999.
Department Chair various years.
Insights Publication Committee, 1996-1999.
Program of Study Committee, 1995-1999.
Search Committee for Assistant Professor of Theology, 1995-1996.
Financial Aid Committee, 1992-93; Chair, 1995-96.
The Church and Higher Education Task Force, 1993-94.
Search Committee for Librarian, Stitt Library, 1993-94.
Seminary Housing Committee, 1993-94.
Committee on Spiritual Formation, 1992-1993.
Search Committee for Lecturer in Higher Education, 1992-93.
Admissions Committee, 1992-95.

Ph.D. Dissertations Directed

Ariane Arpels-Josiah, "Calvin, Moltmann, and Environmental Ethics," Princeton Theological Seminary, 2005.

Dieter U. Heinzl, "Lifting the Burden of the Other: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Emmanuel Levinas," Princeton Theological Seminary, 2006.

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