Revd Dr Dru Johnson
Dru Johnson researches, writes, and teaches on the intellectual world within biblical literature. He studied psychology as an undergraduate while serving seven years in the US Air Force and national guard. He gained his MDiv at Covenant Theological Seminary and worked for eight years as a pastor. He earned an MA in analytic philosophy at the University of Missouri—St Louis and his PhD at the University of St Andrews in biblical studies/theology. He is ordained in the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (USA).
At Wycliffe Hall, Dru directs the Abrahamic Theistic Origins Project (ATOP). Alongside this, he is the founder and director of the Center for Hebraic Thought, a visiting professor at Hope College, editor of the Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Biblical Criticism series, host of The Biblical Mind podcast, and cohost of the OnScript podcast.
Previously, he was professor of biblical and theological studies at The King’s College in New York City, former associate director for the Jewish Philosophical Theology Project at The Herzl Institute (Jerusalem), a research fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies—Shalem Institute (Jerusalem), a research fellow at the Logos Institute (University of St Andrews), and a senior research fellow at the Henry Center (TEDS, Chicago).
