Background
Johnson, John William was born on January 31, 1872 in Willington, County Durham, England. Son of Joseph and Jane Ellen (Galley) Johnson.
Johnson, John William was born on January 31, 1872 in Willington, County Durham, England. Son of Joseph and Jane Ellen (Galley) Johnson.
Shurtleff College, Upper Alton, Illinois, 1899-1900, University of Chicago, summer 1903, Harvard, 1904-1905. Graduate Rochester Theological Seminary, 1906, Bachelor of Divinity, 1910. Bachelor of Philosophy, Rochester, 1909.
Graduate work philosophy, University of California, 1914-1918.
Doctor of Divinity, Pacific School of Religion, 1922. License Theological, honoris causa, University of Göttingen, 1925.
Pastor’s assistant in England, 1893-1896. Ordained Baptist ministry, 1901. Pastor Le Roy, New York, 1906-1909, Wenatchee, Washington, 1909-1911, Emanuel Church, Spokane, 1911-1913.
Professor systematic theology, Berkeley (California) Baptist Division School, since 1913.
Traveled in England and Scotland, 1911, England, 1920. Sabbatic year spent in research at Heidelberg and Göttingen.
Chairman publicity committee Men and Religion Forward Movement for Spokane and Inland Empire, 1911-1912. President East Washington State Baptist Pastors’ Conference, 1911.
Married Sarah Brown Johnson, August 12, 1902. Children: Josephine Ella, Constance Howard, John William Stewart, Faith Seville.