Alexander Völker (theologian)

Alexander Völker (born November 1, 1934 in Spangenberg ; † December 7, 2017 ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and liturgist . He was the author and editor of numerous publications on the practice of worship .

Life

After studying Protestant theology in Marburg and Heidelberg , he was ordained in Hofgeismar on September 17, 1961 . He took up his first pastor's position in Windecken in Hesse . Since 1963 he was a member of the Evangelical Michael Brotherhood . In 1968 he moved to the Westphalian regional church and became pastor in Buchholz , in 1976 pastor and director of studies at the College for Church Music of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia in Herford . From 1980 until his retirement in 1997 he was superintendent of the Minden church district .

Völker became editor in 1974 and co-editor of the yearbook for liturgy and hymnology in 1977 , for which he wrote numerous articles. From 1991 to 2001 he was chairman of the Lutheran Liturgical Conference . Until 2005 he taught liturgy and hymnology at the church music college in Herford and was also its deputy director. He was a contributing member of the Societas Liturgica .

Publications (selection)

(with Walter Blankenburg , Herwarth von Schade , Kurt Schmidt-Clausen ) Kerygma and Melos . Festschrift for Christhard Mahrenholz , 1970
(with Karl Lehmann and Hans Dombois ) Ordination today . 1972
Common Creed: Common wording of the Apostolic and the Nizano-Constantinopolitan Creed for the churches of the German-speaking area . Edited on behalf of the Protestant members of the Working Group for Liturgical Texts in the German Language Area, 1974
Living liturgy: for worship in traditional and special form . 1975
The celebration of Easter vigil . 1983
(with Günther Hinz ) On singing the psalms. A workshop report . 1990
Compline: a draft for the daily prayer of the Evangelical Michael Brotherhood . 1993

Web links

Golden ordination anniversaries in St. Marien. Minden church district, December 3, 2014, archived from the original on March 1, 2016 ; Retrieved on December 11, 2017 (with a short biography Völker).
Alexander Völker: The Year of the Church . In: Quatember 1973, pp. 67-75
Alexander Völker: Liturgy at the main churches of Minden. Some qualitative considerations . In: Yearbook for Liturgy and Hymnology 2014, ISBN 978-3-647-57224-6 , pp. 53–63

Individual evidence

↑ Obituaries in the Mindener Tageblatt , December 9, 2017, accessed on December 11, 2017.
^ Association history. 2002: 50th anniversary . Website of the Windecken Trombone Choir, accessed December 11, 2017.
↑ Alexander Völker . Verlagsgruppe Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, accessed on December 11, 2017.
College for Church Music: New lecturers . KM Umschau: Messages from the church music associations in the Evangelical Church of Westphalia, 4/2005, December 2005, p. 13, accessed on December 11, 2017 (pdf; 878 kB).

personal data
SURNAME	Peoples, alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and liturgical scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	November 1, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH	Spangenberg
DATE OF DEATH	7th December 2017

[1] Obituaries in the Mindener Tageblatt , December 9, 2017, accessed on December 11, 2017.

[2] Association history. 2002: 50th anniversary . Website of the Windecken Trombone Choir, accessed December 11, 2017.

[3] Alexander Völker . Verlagsgruppe Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, accessed on December 11, 2017.
College for Church Music: New lecturers . KM Umschau: Messages from the church music associations in the Evangelical Church of Westphalia, 4/2005, December 2005, p. 13, accessed on December 11, 2017 (pdf; 878 kB).