Johnson was born in Birmingham, Alabama and grew up in Charleston, SC, graduating from College of Charleston with an A. B. degree in 1937. Afterwards he moved back to Birmingham, entered his father's insurance business and married Mary Sibley McCormack. He was converted in Birmingham, while in the insurance business, through the teaching of Dr. Donald Grey Barnhouse. He left the insurance business in 1943 to enter Dallas Theological Seminary, from which he received a Th.M. (1946) and a Th.D. (1949). After retiring from Dallas Seminary, he became Professor of Biblical and Systematic Theology at
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in
Deerfield, Illinois from 1980 to 1985, as well as serving as a visiting professor of New Testament at
Grace Theological Seminary,
Winona Lake, Indiana. From 1985 to 1993 he served as a visiting professor of Systematic Theology at
Tyndale Theological Seminary in
Badhoevedorp, Amsterdam, Netherlands. During his years of ministry he was a guest speaker at Bible conferences in Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Australia, Jamaica, and Europe. Publications include, The Old Testament in the New, (1980), as well as numerous periodical articles, especially in Bibliotheca Sacra (published by Dallas Seminary). He was on the translation committees for
The Berkeley Bible and
The New International Version and contributor to Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (Crossway Books, 1991). He was also engaged in pastoral ministry for over forty years. He served as pastor of Independent Presbyterian Church (1951–1954), which later became Northwest Bible Church, pastor of Grace Bible Church (1954–1958), and as an elder and minister at Believers Chapel (1963–1993) all in Dallas. Lewis Johnson died on January 28, 2004. ==Works==