J A Y E M E R S O N J OHNSON
Pacific School of Religion 1798 Scenic Avenue Berkeley, CA 94709 (o) 510-849-8235 (e) [email protected]
E DUCATION
Ph.D. The Graduate Theological Union, 1998 (Systematic and Philosophical Theology)
Comprehensive examinations (passed with distinction): . History: Apokatastasis in Christian Eschatology . Major Figure: Jürgen Moltmann . Contemporary Issue: Postmodernism and Pneumatology
Dissertation: The Shining City on a Hill: Pragmatism, Ideas of History and Christian Eschatology in North America
M.Div. Nashotah House Episcopal Seminary (cum laude), 1988
B.A. Wheaton College, 1983
A CADEMIC POSITIONS AN D A PPOINTMENTS
Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley CA
2015—present Assistant Professor of Theology and Culture 2017—present Faculty Director, Ignite Certificate 2015—16 Academic Director, the Ignite Institute 2012—15 Lecturer in Theology and Culture 2007—11 Adjunct Faculty 2006—07 Assistant Professor of Theology 2002—05 Adjunct Faculty
Additional Service to PSR 2016—present Faculty Representative to the Board of Trustees 2011—present Faculty, Theological Education for Leadership program 2013—14 Faculty Co-Lead, Center for Spiritual and Social Transformation 2013 Co-Chair, Action Planning Team 2012—13 Chair, Tech. Task Force, Commission on Strategic Direction
The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry at Pacific School of Religion
2007—13 Senior Director, Academic Research & Resources 2006—07 Acting Executive Director 2003—06 Programming and Development Director
The Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA
2008—present Core Doctoral Faculty in Theology 2016—18 Chair, Department of Theology and Ethics 2016—17 Director of Doctoral Studies 2013—15 Convener, Systematic and Philosophical Theology Area
The Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, CA
2001—03 Adjunct Faculty 1996—98 Lecturer in Theology 1995—96 Bogard Teaching Fellow
Additional Service to CDSP 1997—98 Admissions Committee 1997—98 The Board of Trustees: Development Committee 1994—97 The Board of Trustees: Academic Committee 1993—96 Annual Second-Year Student Retreat, Design and Facilitation
A DMINISTRATIVE & L E ADE RS H I P E XPERIENCE
2006—present The Journal of Theology and Sexuality Editorial Board
2006—08 The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Steering Committee, The National Religious Leadership Roundtable
2006—12 Anglican Theological Review Book Review Editor
2001—15 The American Academy of Religion The Gay Men’s Issues in Religion Group Steering Committee (2008—15); Co-Chair (2001—2007)
1998—2001 Net Market Makers, Inc. Co-Founder, COO, and CFO
1984—85 Sepphoris Archaeological Excavation, Israel Field Supervisor and Asst. Area Supervisor
1982 Caesarea Maritima Archaeological Excavation, Israel Field Assistant
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1992—present The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, Berkeley, CA Associate Clergy
2009—12 The Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music of the Episcopal Church: The Blessings Project Theology Consultant and Theology Task Group Chair
2010 Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco Pulpit Supply and Interim Pastoral Support (Oct.—Dec.)
2004—05 The Episcopal Church & the Windsor Report: Presiding Bishop’s Response Committee Member and Contributor
1996 The Episcopal Church of Our Saviour, Mill Valley, CA Interim Rector
1990—91 The Episcopal Diocese of Chicago Diocesan Task Force on Human Sexuality
1989—90 The Episcopal Diocese of Chicago Diocesan Task Force on the Catechumenate
1990—91 St. Simon’s Episcopal Church, Arlington Heights, IL Interim Rector
1988—90 St. Simon’s Episcopal Church, Arlington Heights, IL Curate
P UBLICATIONS
Books
[2020] Creaturely God: An Erotic and Eucharistic Performance of Divine Ecology (in process).
2014 Peculiar Faith: Queer Theology for Christian Witness, New York: Seabury Books.
2013 Divine Communion: A Eucharistic Theology of Sexual Intimacy, New York: Seabury Books.
2011 Queer Religion (two volumes), co-editor with Donald Boisvert, Santa Barbara: Praeger Publishers.
2005 Dancing with God: Anglican Christianity and the Practice of Hope, Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse Publishing.
Articles and Book Chapters
“A Virtual Ghost in the Digital Machine: Whole Brain Emulation, Disembodied Gender, and Queerly Mystical Animality,” in Transhumanism and its Religious Critics, ed. Ted Peters (forthcoming from Lexington Press, 2019).
Jay Emerson Johnson | Curriculum Vitae, 2018 Page 3 of 8 “The Gate of Heaven in the House of Bread: The Vitality of Place for an Incarnational Theology of Abundant Life,” in Gestures to the Divine: Reflections on Eco-Spirituality, ed. Elizabeth Peña (Berkeley: The Graduate Theological Union, 2018).
“Divine Detritus: Queer Remainders from Theological Quests,” Theology and Sexuality, 23:1-2 (2017).
“Liberating Compassion: A Queerly Theological Anthropology of Enchanting Animals,” in Meaningful Flesh: Reflections on Religion and Nature for a Queer Planet, ed. Whitney Bauman (Punctum Books, 2017).
“Apocalypse Later,” in Disquiet Time: Rants and Reflections on the Good Book by the Skeptical, the Faithful, and a Few Scoundrels, ed. Jennifer Grant and Cathleen Falsani (New York: Jericho Books, 2014).
“Peculiar: Falling in (Love) with God,” in Dancing Theology in Fetish Boots: Essays in Honor of Marcella Althaus-Reid, ed. Mark D. Jordan and Lisa Isherwood (London: SCM Press, 2011).
“Sodomy and Gendered Love: Reading Genesis 19 in the Anglican Communion,” in The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible, ed. Emma Mason, et al. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).
“Proper 22-24: Theological Perspectives,” in Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary, Year A, Vol. 4, ed. David L. Bartlett and Barbara Brown Taylor (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2011).
“Clergy” and “Episcopal Church,” in LGBTQ America Today: An Encyclopedia, vol. 1, ed. John C. Hawley (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2009).
“Looking from the Outside In: Social Science and Sexual Identity in Today’s Churches,” Anglican Theological Review 90:3 (Summer 2008).
“Anglican Bodies: The Gift of Heretical Liminality and the Risk of Relaxed Vigilance,” in Gay Catholic Priests and Clerical Sexual Misconduct: Breaking the Silence, ed. Donald L. Boisvert and Robert E. Goss (New York and London: Haworth Press, 2005).
To Set Our Hope on Christ, with Mark McIntosh, et al. (New York: The Episcopal Church Center, 2005).
“Faith Family Photo Albums: Reclaiming Theological Traditions in the Transgressive Blend of Text and Practice,” Theology and Sexuality 9 (March 2003).
“Protestants and Protestantism,” in The Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America, vol. 2, ed. Marc Stein (New York: Scribner’s Sons, 2003).
“Searching for Religious Eroticism: The Solitary and the Ocular in Gay Religious Studies,” Theology and Sexuality 8 (March 2002).
“Constructing Common Ground: Mapping the Contributions of Gay People to Christian Theology,” in A Rainbow of Religious Studies, edited by J. Michael Clark and Robert E. Goss (Las Colinas: Monument Press), 1996.
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Review of Empire in Christian Tradition: New Readings of Classical Theologians, edited by Kwok Pui-Lan, Don H. Compier, and Joerg Rieger (Fortress Press, 2007), The Journal of Anglican and Episcopal History 78 (3): 2009.
Review of A Reenchanted World: The Quest for a New Kinship with Nature, by James William Gibson (Henry Holt & Co., 2009), Anglican Theological Review (Fall 2009).
Review of A Wing and a Prayer: A Message of Faith and Hope, by Katharine Jefferts Schori (Morehouse Publishing: 2007), Anglican Theological Review (Winter 2008).
Review of What Does God Look Like in an Expanding Universe? An Anthology on God, Life and Death, edited by Jim Schenk (ImagoEarth Publishing, 2006), Anglican Theological Review (Summer 2007).
Review of Gays and the Future of Anglicanism: Responses to the Windsor Report, edited by Richard Kirker and Andrew Linzey (O Books: 2005), Anglican Theological Review (Summer 2006).
Review of Resurrection and Discipleship, by Thorwald Lorenzen (Orbis Books: 1995), Anglican Theological Review (Spring, 1997).
Review of Gay Soul, edited by Mark Thompson (HarperCollins: 1995), Journal of Men’s Studies,
4 (3), 1996.
Online Magazines and Podcasts (representative samples)
“The Spirit that Animated Jesus Returns to Us,” Podcast at Homebrewed Christianity, 17 April 2017 (https://homebrewedchristianity.com/2017/04/17/the-spirit-that-animated- jesus-returns-to-us-with-jay-emerson-johnson-lectiocast/).
“Resurrection of the Lord,” Podcast at Homebrewed Christianity, 10 April 2017 (https://homebrewedchristianity.com/2017/04/10/resurrection-of-the-lord-with-jay- emerson-johnson-lectiocast/).
“Vagina Dialogues and White Gay Men: A Lenten Discipline,” Huffington Post, March 2012 (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/vagina-dialogues-and-whit_b_1353951).
“Religious Hate Speech: Time to End this Groundhog’s Day Cycle,” Huffington Post, May 2012 (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/religious-hate-speech_b_1537982).
“Homos for the Holidays: A Religion Survival Guide,” Huffington Post, December 2011 (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/homos-for-the-holidays-a-_b_1161494).
“Queering Christian Marriage,” American Sexuality Magazine, National Sexuality Resource Center at San Francisco State University (www.nsrc.sfsu.edu /WebMagazine.cfm), 2005.
P A PER S A N D P U BL IC P RESENTATIONS
Papers Presented
“Intelligent Chaos? Messy Origins, Categorical Ambiguity, and Hopeful Multiplicity.”
Jay Emerson Johnson | Curriculum Vitae, 2018 Page 5 of 8 Presented to the Annual Russell Family Research Conference of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences at the Graduate Theological Union, 2018.
“Liberating Compassion and Gratitude: A Theological Anthropology of Enchanting Animals.” Presented to the American Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting, 2013.
“To Be or Not to Be? Queer Conduct and Religious Anti-Identity.” Presented to the American Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting, 2007.
“Bottom’s Up! Hope for Retrieving Christianity’s Aborted Revolution in Gender.” Presented to the American Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting, 2005.
“Trinitarian Tango: Divine Perichoretic Fecundity in Polyamorous Relations.” Presented to the American Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting, 2003 (published in Werkstatt Schwule Theologie, Nr. 3, 2004).
“Apocalypse Later? A Pragmatic, Darwinian Christian Theology.” Presented to the Highlands Institute for American Philosophical and Theological Thought, 2000.
“From Prohibition to Spiritual Practice: Finding Sex in Christian Traditions.” Presented to the Institute for Religion in an Age of Science, 1999.
“From the Pineal Gland to the Hypothalamus: Reconstructing Essentialism in Cultural and Theological Categories.” Presented to the American Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting, 1994.
Public Presentations and Lectures (representative samples)
“Ancient Wisdom and Modern Innovation: Renewed Vocations for the World’s Healing.” Retreat design and facilitation. The Annual Clergy Retreat of the Episcopal Diocese of California. September 2018.
“Divine Animality and in an Era of Ecological Collapse.” Education for Ministry Series at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA. August 2018.
“Coming Out as Christian: Doing Theology in Public for LGBTQ Thriving.” The Public Theology Certificate Program at the American Baptist Seminary of the West. March 2018
“A Strange Book (Thank God): Making Scripture from the Bible for Social Change and Transformation.” Campbell United Methodist Church. September 2015.
“Queerly Human, Naturally Divine: A Sexually Gendered Transformation of Christian Theology.” The Annual Jack Reynolds Lecture, Toronto School of Theology. March 2014.
“Food, Sex, and God: Divine Desire and World-changing Hope.” Mainstage Address at the Wild Goose Festival, Hot Springs, NC. June 2014.
“Called Out, Undone, and Beloved: Renewing the Vocational Vision of Christian Ministry.” Colloquium for MCC and UCC clergy and seminarians, hosted by Cathedral of Hope, Dallas, TX. December 2013.
“Spiritually Gay and Queerly Christian.” Queer Lecture Series at Sonoma State University, Cotati, CA. April 2012.
Jay Emerson Johnson | Curriculum Vitae, 2018 Page 6 of 8 “Ending the War on Women: Lent and Liberation.” Rector’s Forum at All Saints’ Church, Pasadena, CA. March 2012.
“Reading the Bible for Theological Insight and Spiritual Liberation.” Workshop, the Golden Gate Conference of the United Church of Christ. October 2011.
“Beyond Acceptance: Queer Retrievals of Christian Faith and Practice.” Workshop series, Stanford University LGBT Resource Center. October 2011.
“A Theology of Covenantal Relationship.” Presentation to the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church. September 2010.
“Wireless Fidelity,” Lecture Series, Joint Lutheran/Episcopal Campus Ministry Conference. Minneapolis, June 2006.
“Courageous Living in Challenging Times: An Invitation to Dance.” Keynote address, the Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Eastern Michigan, October 2005.
“Sex and Spirit: The Incarnation in Anglican Theologies.” Education series, Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, January – February 2004.
“Constructive Theologies and Lively Faith: Where do we go from here?” Education series, Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, January – February 2003.
“Decisive Faith and Faithful Decisions: Ethics in Anglican Traditions.” Education series, Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, Spring 2002.
“The Relevance of Revelation: Are Anglicans Apocalyptic?” Three-part education program, Church of St. Mary the Virgin, San Francisco, CA, Fall 1999.
“Sexuality, Spirituality and Christianity.” Presentation to the Philosophy Club of San Mateo Community Colleges, San Mateo, CA, Fall 1998.
“Religion and Politics in American Culture.” Education program presented to All Saints’ Church, Palo Alto, CA, Fall 1996.
G RANTS A ND A WARDS
1997 Evangelicals Concerned, Annual Preaching Prize 1996 Newhall Research Fellowship, Graduate Theological Union 1995—96 Bogard Teaching Fellowship, Church Divinity School of the Pacific 1992—95 The Episcopal Church Foundation Graduate Fellowship
GTU S TU DE N T COMMITTEES
Dissertation Committee, Coordinator
[2019] Stephan Quarles, “Cruciform Knowledge of God: The Cross, Apophasis, Soteriology, and Michel Foucault’s History of Madness.” (Defense anticipated February 2019.)
2018 Dante Quick, “Toward a Black Pneumatology: An Exploration of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Kelly Brown Douglas.”
Jay Emerson Johnson | Curriculum Vitae, 2018 Page 7 of 8 2018 Jin Sook Kim, “The Subject in Practice: A Lacanian Interpretation of Religious Practice.”
2017 Nathan Bjorge, “Liberation Theurgy: Towards a Critical Theory of Insurgent Hermeticism.”
2016 Lauren Frances Guerra, “Beautified by the Spirit: Community Murals as a Liberative Source for Constructive Pneumatology.”
2016 Roland Stringfellow, “Liberating Religious Liberty.” (PSR Doctor of Ministry program.)
2016 Debra Haffner, “Sexually Safer Congregations.” (PSR Doctor of Ministry program.)
2013 Kathryn Bellm Alexander, “Saving Beauty: Andy Goldsworthy and a Theological Aesthetics of Nature.”
Dissertation Committee, Member
2018 Therese Marie Ignacio Bjøernaas, “Imago Dei as Imago Trinitatis: A Theology of Disability and Embodied Cognition.”
2016 Austin Leininger, “Holy Baptism, Holy Eucharist, Holy Sex: A Sacramental Approach to Sexual Ethics.”
2015 Kyle Butler, “Communities of Difference: Constructing an Ecclesiology of Multiplicity.”
2015 Kyle Schiefelbein, “Sin and Brokenness, Passage and Purpose: Reforms in Recent American Lutheran Rites for the Pastoral Care of the Sick.”
2012 Richard Lindsay, “The Camp and the Kerygma: Queer Readings of Hollywood Biblical Epics.”
2011 Heather Reichgott, “A Political Theology of Baptism.”
2011 Sharon Fennema, “’Falling All Around Me’: Worship Performing Theodicy in the Midst of San Francisco’s AIDS Crisis.”
2010 Mariusz Beczek, OSJ, “The Role of Obedience in von Balthasar’s Theological Aesthetics and Theo-Drama and the Critique of his Treatment of Obedience in Light of Royce’s Philosophy of Loyalty.”
L ICENSURE AND CAN O NI C AL S TATUS
The Interim Ministry Network Training and Certification as an Interim Minister, 1990
Ordained Priest in the Episcopal Church by the Rt. Rev. Frank T. Griswold III, Bishop of Chicago, December 17, 1988
Canonical Residence: The Diocese of California
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