Timothy Johnson

Craig and Audrey Thorn Distinguished Professor of Religion

Department

Humanities, School of Humanities and Sciences

Research, Professional and Creative Activity

Senior Fulbright Scholarship, 2004
Joseph Doino Visiting Professor of Franciscan Theology at Saint Bonaventure University, 2006
Shultz Foundation Award, 2008
Kahler Fund Award, 2009, 2013
Dean's Award for Scholarship, 2008, 2010
Visiting Fellow, Cambridge University, England, 2013
Published six books on Saint Bonaventure and Medieval-Early Modern Franciscans
Published in numerous North American and European journals
Senior theology co-editor for Franciscan Studies
Chair of the Research Advisory Council for the Franciscan Institute, Saint Bonaventure University
Completed an English translation of Bonaventure’s Latin Sunday Sermons, 2008
Currently working with an international research team to produce a tri-lingual study-translation of the liturgical legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
Academic board member, Research Centre for the Comparative History of Religious Orders at the University of Dresden
Member of the American Academy of Religion
Member of the J. William Fulbright Association
Member of the International Medieval Sermon Studies Society
Member of the Northeast Florida Phi Beta Kappa Society
Member of the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality
University of Dresden, Dresden Senior Fellowship in the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences of the Technische Universität recipient

Professional Profile

Timothy J. Johnson is the Craig and Audrey Thorn Distinguished Professor of Religion at Flagler College (United States). He received his Doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University (Italy). He came to Flagler College in 1998. A Senior Fulbright Scholar and Chair of the Research Advisory Board of the Franciscan Institute, he has held visiting fellowships at Cambridge University (England), Dresden University (Germany), and Eichstätt-Inglostadt University (Germany). He has been invited to be a visiting professor at the Pontifical Antonianum University (Italy), Saint Bonaventure College (Zambia), and Saint Bonaventure University (United States). Flagler College nominated Dr. Johnson twice for Carnegie Professor of the Year award.

Dr. Johnson is the author of The Soul in Ascent: Bonaventure on Poverty, Prayer, and Union with God (Franciscan Institute: reprint 2012) and the co-author or translator of twelve books with two more forthcoming. He has authored fifty-five journal articles and book chapters with three more forthcoming. Recent publications include the co-edited The Prayed Francis: Liturgical Vitae and Franciscan Identity in the Thirteenth Century (Franciscan Institute: 2019) and Preaching and New Worlds: Sermons as Mirrors of Realms Near and Far (Routledge: 2019). Dr. Johnson serves on the Roman Catholic Historical Commission charged by the Vatican with investigating the possible canonization of the Native American Antonio Cuipa and Companions.

In November of 2019 he discovered a previously unknown 1628 work by Fr. Francisco Pareja and his Timucua co-authors in the Codrington Library at All Souls Library at Oxford University. Flagler College News: Flagler Professor Discovers Unkown Spanish Timucua Book While on Sabbatical

While his primary area of expertise is the history of Christian spirituality and theology, Dr. Johnson enjoys teaching courses as diverse as Religion and Film and Sacred Space. He has led study abroad programs to Germany, Israel, Italy, and Mexico.