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“Glorious things are spoken of you, O City of God” (Ps. 87.3)
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Prof. Dr. Volker H. Drecoll

Faculty of Protestant Theology Kirchengeschichte II 
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen



volker.drecoll@uni-tuebingen.de  / faculty page 

Biography

Volker attended the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Hanover and studied theology at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster from 1988 to 1993.
In 1993 he took his first theological examination here; 1996 he received his doctorate on Basilius von Cäsarea, the important saint of the Eastern Church; and
in 1998 he habilitated with the writing Die Entstehung der Gnadenlehre Augustins.
He completed his vicariate from 1998 to 2000 in the St.-Marten-Gemeinde in Osnabrück and at the St. Michael preacher's seminary in Hildesheim.
Since 2004, Theological Faculty of the University of Tübingen. Here he also represents Christian archaeology, among other things. 
In April 2005, he was entrusted with the office of Ephorus of the Protestant Faculty Tübingen, in which he succeeded the theologian Eberhard Jüngel.

Awards and Honors

Karl Arnold Prize of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Düsseldorf (2001)
Prize for the Promotion of Young Researchers of the Society for the Promotion of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (2001)
Heisenberg scholarship from the German Research Foundation (2001)

Books

How Not to Read Augustine by Volker Drecoll
How Not to Read Augustine by Volker Drecoll

How Not to Read Augustine by Volker Drecoll

$19.99

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