Member Profiles
Junius Johnson
Junius Johnson Academics
Education
Ph.D., Systematic Theology, Yale University (2010)
M.Phil., Theology, Yale University (2009)
M.Phil., Medieval Studies, Yale University (2006)
M.A., Theology, Yale University (2005)
M.A.R., Yale Divinity School (2000)
AMA Presentations
(2024) “Ekstasis and the Limits of Thought: Bonaventure on the Modes of Knowing.”
Publications
Books
(2023) On Teaching Fairy Stories: A Guide to Cultivating Wonder in Students. Classical Academic Press.
(2020) The Father of Lights: A Theology of Beauty. Baker Academic.
(2017) Bonaventure on the Eucharist: Commentary on the Sentences, Book IV, dist. 8-13. Peeters Press.
(2016) Patristic and Medieval Atonement Theory: A Guide to Research. Rowman and Littlefield.
(2013) Christ and Analogy: The Christocentric Metaphysics of Hans Urs von Balthasar. Augsburg Fortress Press.
Academic Articles
(2023) “Retrieving Contuition in Saint Bonaventure,” Franciscan Studies 81: 5-31.
(2023) “Vast Beauty and Staggering Wonder: Putting the Childlike Spirit Back into Education,” Consortium 2 (1): 39-49.
(2021) “Body-less Vision: An Examination of the Incarnational Theology of Paradiso 31-33,” in Dante’s Volume from Alpha to Omega. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
(2020) “The Eucharistic Horizon of Bonaventure’s Christology: A Speculative Proposal,” in Saint Bonaventure Friar, Teacher, Minister, Bishop: Essays in Celebration of the English Centenary of His Birth, eds. Timothy Johnson and Katherine Shelby. Franciscan Institute Publications.
(2019) “Unlocking Bonaventure: The Collationes in Hexaemeron as Interpretive Key,” The Thomist 83 (2): 272-94.
(2016) “The One and the Many in Bonaventure: Exemplarity Explained,” Religions 7 (12): Special Issue - “Plato Among the Christians.”
(2016) “Theological Word and Literary Flesh: Bonaventurean Cosmology and the Cosmic Trilogy of C. S. Lewis,” Literature and Theology 30 (4): 426-38.
(2012) “Translations of Benedetto da Rovezano and Pietro Torrigiani,” in The Anglo-Florentine Renaissance: Art for the Early Tudors. Yale University Press.