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Samuel Lewis Johnson, Jr. was born in Birmingham, AL on September 13, 1915 to Kathleen and Samuel Lewis Johnson, Sr. When he was fourteen years old, the family moved to Charleston, SC, where Lewis finished high school. He received his A.B. degree in 1937 from the College of Charleston. While in college Lewis became proficient in the sport of golfing and entered many amateur tournaments in the Southeastern states. In 1937 he returned to Birmingham to work in his father's insurance business and to wed Mary Sibley McCormack. However, several years later, S. Lewis Johnson was saved under the preaching of Donald Grey Barnhouse. Sensing a call to fulltime ministry, S. Lewis enrolled in Dallas Theological Seminary in 1943. He received his Th.M. degree in 1946 and his Th.D. degree in 1949.
From 1949-80 Dr. Johnson taught Greek, Hebrew, and Systematic Theology at...