Jochen Arnold

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Jochen Arnold (born December 28, 1967 in Marbach am Neckar , Baden-Württemberg ) is a Protestant theologian and church musician . He is director of the Michaeliskloster Hildesheim - Evangelical Center for Worship and Church Music of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Hanover .

Career

Jochen Arnold passed the church music examination in 1986 and graduated from the Friedrich-Schiller-Gymnasium Marbach in 1987 . The community service followed until 1989 in a parish in downtown Stuttgart .

From 1989 to 1996 he studied Protestant theology in Tübingen and the Waldensian Faculty in Rome and in 1991 became cantor at the Protestant Christ Church in Rome . From 1992 to 1998 he studied Protestant church music at the State University for Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart , from which Arnold graduated with the A-exam. In addition, from 1993 to 1999 he was cantor at the Kreuzkirche in Reutlingen .

In addition to his participation in the Stuttgart Chamber Choir as a tenor and continuo organist, he was in charge of the vocal soloist ensemble Gli Scarlattisti from 1995 and of the Reutlingen gospel choir from 1997 to 2003. From 1997 to 1999 he completed postgraduate studies in popular music at the University of Church Music in Esslingen and Tübingen .

Arnold received his doctorate in theology from 1996 to 2003 in Tübingen with a thesis on the theology of worship. From 1999 to 2001 he was vicar at the Marienkirche in Reutlingen and passed the second theological exam. In January 2002 he was ordained as a Protestant pastor.

In 2002/2003 Arnold took on a teaching position at the parish seminary of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg in the subjects of worship and sermon as well as pastoral theology.

Since 2004 Jochen Arnold has been director of the Michaeliskloster Hildesheim - Evangelical Center for Worship and Church Music of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Hanover.

In 2007 he completed his habilitation on the cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach .

In November 2018, the Synod of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia nominated Jochen Arnold as one of three candidates for the office of bishop to succeed the current incumbent Markus Dröge from November 2019. Arnold was defeated by Stäblein in the election that took place during the spring meeting of the regional synod took place on April 5, 2019, in the second ballot with 29 out of a total of 113 votes.

Act

Arnold wrote publications in the fields of theology and church music and held lectureships for choral conducting and theology at the University of Hildesheim and - since 2007 - for Protestant theology at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences . Since 2008 he has been working as a voluntary private lecturer at the University of Leipzig .

Publications

  • Theology of worship. A determination of the relationship between liturgy and dogmatics (= publications on liturgy, hymnology and theological research on church music. 39). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-525-57213-1 (Zugl .: Tübingen, Univ., Diss., 2003).
  • Talking about God poetically and musically. God's hidden and open action in J. S. Bach's spiritual cantatas (= works on pastoral theology, liturgy and hymnology. 57). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-525-57124-8 (Zugl .: Leipzig, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 2008).
  • What happens in the service? On the theological meaning of worship and its forms. 2nd Edition. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-525-61049-7 .
  • Taste and See - The Celebration of Christian Worship, Newly Explained. Lutherisches Verlagshaus, Hannover 2013, ISBN 978-3-7859-1121-1 .

Arnold is the publisher of the book series , DNB 979146453 , and co-editor of numerous works and has written systematic-theological, practical-theological and hmynological-church music-related essays, sermon meditations and worship services. He also created musical CD productions.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ epd : Bishop candidates for the successor to Markus Dröge announced. In: evangelisch.de , December 7, 2018, accessed on February 1, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b Tarek Abu Ajamieh: Hildesheimer Jochen Arnold wants to become bishop in Berlin. In: Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung . December 8, 2018, accessed February 1, 2019.
  3. ↑ Christian Stäblein becomes the new regional bishop of the EKBO. rbb24, April 5, 2019, accessed on August 21, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Arnold, Jochen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian, church musician
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Marbach am Neckar