Dr. Samuel Johnson

Dr. Johnson is Dean of the School of Theology at Mount St. Mary's Seminary and School of Theology. His teaching and research is broadly invested in drawing contemporary New Testament scholarship into dialogue with early Christian reading practices. His latest book (The Life of Jesus in the Writings of Origen of Alexandria) explores the critical reading of the Gospels in early Christianity, and his second book project (The Second Coming: A History) is on the development of New Testament eschatology. He has published on the early Christian reception of the Priestly writings, the relationship between early Christology and the early Jewish wisdom tradition, and the development of Eucharistic praying in late antiquity (appearing in Vigiliae Christianae, Ecclesia Orans, Studia Patristica, and elsewhere).

Dr. Johnson frequently shares his research at national and international conferences and is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature as well as the North American Patristics Society.