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| John F. Johnson, got his PhD from Jesuit St. Louis University, because he thought his Concordia St. Louis ThD was useless outside of Missouri. He sports the lopsided smile so familiar in the Olde Synodical Conference. |
I visited Johnson in his office at Concordia, St. Louis, and got him to start raving about how great the adulterous Karl Barth (Swiss theologian) was. He saw I was not on his wavelength and immediately switched to another topic. He discussed having a ThD from the LCMS was worthless outside of the LCMS, so he earned a PhD at St. Louis University to be more marketable in academics. No wonder Missouri was so eager to make Johnson a higher education leader.
Guided by our enduring Jesuit mission, we offer our nearly 13,000 students a highly rigorous and deeply transformative education that helps them develop into bold, confident leaders. Rated among the nation’s top research universities, SLU boasts 15 graduate and undergraduate programs ranked among the top 50 in the country by U.S. News & World Report.
I could not find David Luy on LinkedIn so I just googled his name + Lutheran. That brought up the page from his previous job at Trinity Divinity. He got his PhD from the Jesuits - Marquette! All roads do lead from Rome nowadays. I need to build a gallery of Jesuit PhDs:
- John Sparky Brenner - WELS professor at Mordor, Dean of GA Hazing Rites.
- Jack Kilcrease - Our Lady of Sorrows Convent School (a nominal LCMS guy trained in ELCA yet born in a WELS parsonage).
- Gregory Schulz - LCMS ex-professor, C.U. Mequon.
- Karl Fabrezius - LCMS pastor.
- David Luy - NALC Seminary.
- Charles Cortright - Wisconsin Lutheran College, WELS.
- John F. Johnson
- Erik P. Ankerberg
Not one of these Lutherans would admit knowing that I exist, and I know four of them one way or another (fewer is better).
Maybe if I wore all black and always played word games with the truth...
