LTSS

Dr. Robert D. Hawkins, a native of Indiana, is the Leonora G. McClurg Distinguished Professor of Worship and Music and Dean of Christ Chapel.  He holds Bachelor and Masters of Music degrees from Ball State University, and earned the Master Of Arts and Ph.D. in Liturgical History from the University of Notre Dame.  Organist at Southern Seminary, he has studied organ performance and literature with John Boe, Kirby Koriath, Arthur Howes, and Philip Gehring; liturgy and hymnody with Otto Brodde at the Hochschule für Music und darstellende Kunst; and organ performance and literature with Heinz Wunderlich at St. Jacobi Church in Hamburg, Germany.

Dr. Hawkins is a member of the North American Academy of Liturgy, Societas Liturgica, and the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians.  Throughout the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and for other traditions, he presents workshops, seminars and lectures on liturgical development, church music, and the relationship of worship and theology.  He has published numerous articles, was a member of the ELCA Task Force on the Study of Sacramental Practices, and has participated in several of the Renewing Worship consultations leading to the publication of Evangelical Lutheran Worship. He also has worked to introduce the Adult Catechumenal process.

Dr. Hawkins is a frequent contributor to congregational, conference, synodical and churchwide events.   For the 175^th anniversary of the seminary, he prepared historic liturgies representative of the worship books for Lutherans in the Southeast.  He is contributor of a chapter on hymnody and preaching for the LTSS faculty book focusing on aspects of preaching. Recently he served as chairman of the Deaconess Community Candidacy Committee and a member of its Board of Directors.   He is married to the Rev. Karen Salvo Hawkins, pastor of Christ the King Lutheran Church, Columbia, SC.