[1] Johnson served as professor of theology and director of the Christian service department at Nyack College, and was the author of The Pilgrimage of Joseph Douglas Williams: A Brief Portrayal of His Life (1952), and the JETS article "The Outreach Of Theological Education" (1960).
Johnson was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1904 and was married in 1925 to Ida Goodman.
[2] Johnson served as a pastor in Dover, New Jersey, Owen Sound, Ontario, and Brockton, Massachusetts before joining the faculty in 1940 of what became Nyack College.
[1] There he served as chair of the division of Bible and theology and later as vice president.
In 1959, he served a term as president of the Evangelical Theological Society.