Departmental homepageReverend Dr Johnson is Dean of Chapel. Prior to this she was Precentor and trustee of York Minster, a Residentiary Canon of Ely Cathedral and a Parish Priest in Manchester. She studied theology at Cambridge and Yale, USA. Before her ordination in the Church of England, she was a cancer research scientist with a doctorate in Biochemistry. She is a trustee of Westcott House, Cambridge, a member of the Littlemore Group, Mission Theology and Apologetics Group, and the College of Archbishop's Evangelists. She is a trustee of the National Centre for Early Music, The Church Music Society and the Ryedale Festival.
Dr Johnson has taught liturgy and homiletics, liturgical theology and spirituality, mission theology, Christian formation and education, music and theology, apologetics, and science and religion.
Her research interests include music and faith, liturgical theology, Anglican polity and practice, homiletics, the spirituality of Evangelism, prayer, science and religion.
Johnson, Victoria. On Voice: Speech, Song, Silence, Human and Divine (2024, Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd).
Johnson, Victoria. "Choosing to be beholden" in The Vowed Life: The Promise and Demand of Baptism. Edited by Sarah Coakley and Matthew Bullimore (Canterbury Press, 2023), 156-171.
Johnson, Victoria. "Attending to the Conversation: The Word of Witness and the Transformation of the World" and "A sermon for Christ the King, The Alpha and the Omega" in Holy Attention: Preaching in Today's Church, Edited by Frances Ward and Richard Sudworth (Canterbury Press, 2019).
Johnson, Victoria. "The Priest attends to the School of the Heart: Parish Theology" in For God's Sake: Re-imagining Priesthood and Prayer in a Changing Church, Edited by Jessica Martin and Sarah Coakley (Canterbury Press, 2016), 128-142.
