Dr Dru Johnson
Templeton Senior Research Fellow
Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford
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Biography
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).
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Religion, Philosophy & History Interests
Christianity-Protestantism, Theology
Science & Technology Interests
Evolution
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Publications
Understanding Biblical Law: Skills for Thinking with and through Torah
Baker Academic 2025
What Hath Darwin to Do with Scripture: Comparing the Conceptual Worlds of the Bible and Evolution
IVP Academic 2023
The Biblical World of Gender: The Daily Lives of Ancient Women and Men
Cascade 2022
Editors:Celina Durgin
Biblical Philosophy: A Hebraic Approach to the Old and New Testaments
Cambridge University Press 2021
Epistemology and Biblical Theology: From the Pentateuch to the Gospel of Mark
Routledge 2019
Human Rites: The Power of Sacraments, Habits, and Rituals
Eerdmans 2019
The Question of God's Perfection: Jewish and Christian Essays on the God of the Bible and Talmud
Brill 2018
Editors:Yoram Hazony
The Universal Story: Genesis 1–11
Lexham 2018
Knowledge by Ritual: A Biblical Prolegomenon to Sacramental Theology
Eisenbrauns/PennState Press 2016
Scripture's Knowing: A Companion to Biblical Knowing
Cascade 2015
Biblical Knowing: A Scriptural Epistemology of Error
Cascade 2013
