DENNIS E. JOHNSON
Academic Dean
Professor of Practical Theology

B.A., Westmont College; M.Div. and Th.M., Westminster Theological Seminary; Ph.D., Fuller Theological Seminary.

Dr. Johnson has taught at Westminster Seminary California since 1982, having previously pastored Orthodox Presbyterian churches in Fair Lawn, New Jersey and East Los Angeles. After teaching New Testament for 16 years, he now teaches primarily preaching and ministry courses, applying his background in biblical studies to the issues of ministry to the church and the culture. In 2003, Dr. Johnson began his third tenure as WSC’s Academic Dean.

He is associate pastor of New Life Presbyterian Church, a growing Presbyterian Church in America congregation in Escondido. 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 been privileged to preach and teach in Chad, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, 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 (forthcoming), as well as articles and reviews in Westminster Theological Journal, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Journal of the Evangelical Homiletical Society, and Ligonier Ministry’s Table Talk. He 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, and he is a contributor to the Spirit of the Reformation Study Bible and the English Standard Version Study Bible (forthcoming). 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 children, whose families are scattered from Florida to Asia.

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Resident Faculty
  Steven M. Baugh
  R. Scott Clark
  Bryan D. Estelle
  W. Robert Godfrey
  Michael S. Horton
  Dennis E. Johnson
  Hywel R. Jones
  Joel E. Kim
  Julius J. Kim
  Elizabeth E. Park
  David M. VanDrunen
  Joshua J. Van Ee

Professors Emeriti
  Derke P. Bergsma
  Robert B. Strimple

Scholar in Residence
  Peter R. Jones

Visiting Faculty
  Iain M. Duguid
  Darryl G. Hart
  Samuel D. S. Ling
  Richard Lints
  Alfred J. Poirier
  Kimball Riddlebarger
  Philip G. Ryken
  R. C. Sproul