{"id":154,"date":"2019-06-28T03:09:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T03:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luthersem.edu\/faculty\/?page_id=154"},"modified":"2019-12-11T14:46:27","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T14:46:27","slug":"kljoh","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.luthersem.edu\/faculty\/kljoh\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent L. 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(1964-66, 70-74).\u00a0 He returned to South Dakota as assistant professor and dean of men (1966-70) and campus pastor (1974-76) at Augustana College in Sioux Falls.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson earned the B.A. degree at Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, in 1955, and the B.D. from Luther Seminary in 1961.\u00a0 He received both the M.A. and Ed.D. degrees from the University of Wyoming.\u00a0 He did additional study at Uppsala in Sweden during a sabbatical in 1982.<\/p>\n<p>He is a member of the Religious Education Association.<\/p>\n<p>His books include: <i>War, Depression, Prohibition and Racism: the Response of the Sunday School to an Era of Crisis, 1933-1941<\/i> (1992); <i>Why Do People Suffer?\u00a0 Responding to Evil and Suffering<\/i> (1992); <i>Growing with God&#8217;s Child, Parenting the 20-29-Year-Old<\/i> (1988); <i>Paul the Teacher<\/i> (1986); <i>Called to Teach<\/i> (1984); and <i>Jeremiah, God Calls a Servant, a Bible Study Series<\/i> (1997).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography Kent Johnson has been a member of the Luther Seminary faculty since 1976, when he was called as assistant professor.\u00a0 He was promoted to professor in 1985.\u00a0 He has been acting director of continuing education (1986-87) and chair of the department of pastoral theology and ministry (1982-85). 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