JOHNSTON, Robert Kent 1945-

PERSONAL: Born June 9, 1945, in Pasadena, CA; son of Roy G. (a structural engineer) and Naomi (Harmon) Johnston; married Catherine M. Barsotti; children: Elizabeth, Margaret. Education: Stanford University, A.B., 1967; Fuller Theological Seminary, B.D., 1970; attended North Park Theological Seminary, 1970-71; Duke University, Ph.D., 1974. Politics: Democrat.

ADDRESSES: Home—730 South Oak Knoll Ave., Pasadena, CA 91106. Office—Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA 91182. E-mail—johnston@fuller. edu.

CAREER: Ordained minister of Evangelical Covenant Church, 1975; youth minister at Evangelical Covenant Church in Pasadena, CA, 1967-69; assistant minister at Evangelical Covenant Church, Chicago, IL, 1970-71; Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, assistant professor, 1974-78, associate professor of religion, 1978-82. North Park Theological Seminary, Chicago, professor of theology and culture, 1982-93, dean, 1982-88, provost dean, 1988-93; Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA, provost, senior vice president of theology and culture, 1993-95, professor of theology and culture, 1993—. Regular Visiting professor at the St. Petersburg Theological Academy, has also served as a visiting professor at New College Berkely and the Stockholm School of Theology.

MEMBER: American Academy of Religion, American Theological Society, Dietrich Bonhoeffer Society, Conference on Christianity and Literature, Phi Beta Kappa.

WRITINGS:

Evangelicals at an Impasse: Biblical Authority in Practice, John Knox Press (Louisville, KY), 1979.

Psalms, Regal Books (Glendale, CA), 1982.

The Christian at Play, Eerdmans (Grand Rapids, MI), 1983.

(Editor) The Use of the Bible in Theology: Evangelical Options, John Knox Press (Louisville, KY), 1985.

(Coeditor) The Variety of American Evangelicalism, The University of Tennessee Press (Knoxville, TN), 1991.

(Coeditor) Studies in Old Testament Theology: Historical and Contemporary Images of God and God's People, World Publishing (Cleveland, OH), 1992.

(Coeditor) Servant Leadership, Volumes 1-2, Covenant Publications (Chicago, IL), 1993.

(Coeditor) Grace upon Grace, Abingdon (New York, NY), 1999.

Reel Spirituality: Theology and Film in Dialogue, Baker Book House (Grand Rapids, MI), 2000.

Contributor of more than one hundred and fifty chapters, articles and reviews to theology and church journals. General editor of New Testament Biblical Commentary Series, Old Testament, Hendrickson, 1995—.

WORK IN PROGRESS: With J. Walker Smith Life Is Not Work,, for Wildcat Canyon Press, 2001.

SIDELIGHTS: Robert Kent Johnston worked in Japan for the Evangelical Covenant Church in 1965 and in Geneva, Switzerland, as a financial analyst trainee in 1969. He has studied in Belgium and participated in an archaeological expedition in Meiron, Israel. Johnston told CA: "[My] vocational interests include the relationship of Christian theology and culture. This includes particular interests in the movies and theology, the relationship of literature to religion, and the relevance of Old Testament wisdom literature for the contemporary individual."