Dr.
Thomas Hohstadt has achieved recognition in several fields: international symphony conductor, author, lecturer,
recording artist, composer, and soloist. A Fulbright scholar, he holds four advanced degrees from the Eastman School
of Music and the Vienna Akademie fur Musik. A twenty-eight-year conducting career includes positions with the Eastman
School of Music; the Honolulu, Amarillo, and Midland-Odessa Symphonies; and guest appearances in eight nations.During this time, Hohstadt also authored two award-winning books and twenty-six articles. A devoted Christian and instructor at the International Worship Institute, he opens new visions of empowered worship through the theology of creativity and the prophetic metaphor. In his book, Spirit and Emotion, he cracks the conspiracy of natural emotion posing as spirituality. And in this latest book, Dying to Live, Hohstadt combines scholarly skills and prescient insight to explore the new Church of the Digital Age.
Informed writers praise his previous works:
" . . . an issue whose 'time
has come' . . . of major importance . . . skillful communication." Robert Webber, Director of The Institute
for Worship Studies and Professor of Theology, Wheaton College " . . . the most scholarly,
sensible, and scriptural book on the creative power of music I have ever read. . . . a 'must' book for all worshipers."
Judson Cornwall, author and lecturer ". . . crammed with insight,
unsettling, counter-cultural, yet never fueled by the desire to startle the reader and raise a stir." Grace
Mojtabai, former Harvard professor "A William Blake quality
. . . aphoristic . . . like poetry. It ignites things . . . it's provocative . . . it has sentences that blow your
mind." Katherine Veninga, Editor, Texas Journal of Ideas, History and Culture "Awesome . . . on to something
important . . . a wonderful way with words, often brilliant." Bishop Leroy T. Matthiesen, Diocese of Amarillo