He was member of Stuttgart Chamber Choir as a singer and Continuo player. After years as church musician and vicar of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Wuerttemberg in Reutlingen he was ordained in 2002.
The subject of his PHD (dissertation) was about the relationship between theology and liturgy and published as Theology of the liturgy. He was promoted at the University of Tubingen in 2003.
From 2002 to 2004 he taught Homiletics, Pastoral theology and Liturgics for incoming pastors in Stuttgart. Since 2004 he is director of Michaeliskloster Hildesheim, Centre for Worship and Music of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover. He is teaching theology of the liturgy, preaching, practical liturgics and conducting as well as he is responsible for the management of the institution with five sections (worship & church music; Children’s worship; Brass choirs; Centre for the development of quality in Worship).
Since 2008 he has been teaching Systematic and Practical theology at the University of Lipsia(Leipzig) as well as Practical theology at the Hochschule Hanover and music (conducting) at the University of Hildesheim. Jochen Arnold is conducting three Ensembles, the Orchestra Collegium Musicum Hildesheim, the Choir of the University Hildesheim and the Chamber Choir Gli Scarlattisti. With this Ensemble many Radio and CD recordings of vocal music ( www.scarlattisti.de) were published.
Jochen Arnold is member of the board of the Liturgical Conference (German speaking scholars in middle Europe) and Liturgical Consultant for the CPCE (GEKE) since 2013. He has published many articles and books on music and theology. He is editor of the theological book series gemeinsam gottesdienst gestalten by EVA (Leipzig)( actually 31 books).
https://jochenarnold.de/publikationen/literaturliste/