Junius Johnson: The Experience and Idea of Beauty

Junius Johnson is one of the most exciting scholars of Christian thought working today. Also a musician—with special love for the French horn, he is a writer and speaker with expertise in historical and systematic theology. His historical work is especially focused on the Medieval period, particularly high Scholasticism (especially St. Bonaventure) and the treatment of theology in vernacular works of imaginative fiction. His systematic work focuses on beauty and the imagination, trinitarian theology, Christology, metaphysics, and the Eucharist (and especially the work of Hans Urs von Balthasar). He holds a BA from Oral Roberts University (English Lit), an MAR from Yale Divinity School (Historical Theology), and an MA, two MPhils, and a PhD (Philosophical Theology) from Yale University. He is the author of Christ and Analogy: The Christocentric Metaphysics of Hans Urs von Balthasar (Fortress Press, 2010), Patristic and Medieval Atonement Theory: A Guide to Research (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016), Bonaventure on the Eucharist: Commentary on the Sentences, Book IV, dist. 8-13 (Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations, 2017), and The Father of Lights: A Theology of Beauty (Baker Academic, 2020), as well as numerous academic articles. An engaging speaker and teacher, he is a frequent guest contributor to blogs and podcasts on faith and culture. Happily, that includes Luminous!