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His focus was in the area of [[fundamental theology]] and [[philosophy of religion]]. In connection with the topic of [[creationism]], Schwöbel attempted a scientific-theoretical analysis. He considered the juxtaposition ''natural science versus faith'' used on the part of many ideological evolutionists in the debate with creationism to be self-defeating, and pointed out, |
His focus was in the area of [[fundamental theology]] and [[philosophy of religion]]. In connection with the topic of [[creationism]], Schwöbel attempted a scientific-theoretical analysis. He considered the juxtaposition ''natural science versus faith'' used on the part of many ideological evolutionists in the debate with creationism to be self-defeating, and pointed out, |
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{{quote|that the natural sciences themselves create their own relations of authority, which are justified by the already always theory-laden character of the concept of experience and by the fact that they operate in theoretical paradigms that certainly have authoritative status.|ref=<ref>Schwöbel: ''Being or Design - that is the Question Here. Christian faith in creation in the field of tension between evolutionism and creationism''. In: Janowski, Schweitzer, Schwöbel (eds.): ''Schöpfungsglaube'', 2010, pp. 120-171, here p. 123.</ref>} |
{{quote|that the natural sciences themselves create their own relations of authority, which are justified by the already always theory-laden character of the concept of experience and by the fact that they operate in theoretical paradigms that certainly have authoritative status.|ref=<ref>Schwöbel: ''Being or Design - that is the Question Here. Christian faith in creation in the field of tension between evolutionism and creationism''. In: Janowski, Schweitzer, Schwöbel (eds.): ''Schöpfungsglaube'', 2010, pp. 120-171, here p. 123.</ref>} |
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Schwöbel was also director of the Institute for [[Hermeneutics]] and Dialogue of Cultures. |
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He was a member of the scientific advisory board of |
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Christoph Schwöbel (* 19 February 1955 in Frankfurt am Main; † 18. September 2021) was a German Evangelical (in the German sense) Theologian und was Professor for Systematic Theology at the University of St Andrews, Scotland
Life
Christoph Schwöbel studied evangelische Theologie and Philosophy at the Bethel und Marburg, received his doctorate in 1978 in Marburg and qualified there as a professor, through his Habilitation, in 1990.
Christoph Schwöbel was Lecturer for Systematic Theology atKing’s College London from 1986 to 1993 and in 1988 founded the Research Institute in Systematic Theology (RIST), serving as its Director until 1993.
Subsequently he taught as professor of systematic theology at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel from 1993 to 1999. This was followed by a professorship of systematic and ecumenical theology at the Faculty of Theology of Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg from 1999 to 2004, where he was also director of the Ecumenical Institute. From October 2004 to July 2018, he was Professor of Systematic Theology at the evangelisch-theologischen Fakultät of Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
His focus was in the area of fundamental theology and philosophy of religion. In connection with the topic of creationism, Schwöbel attempted a scientific-theoretical analysis. He considered the juxtaposition natural science versus faith used on the part of many ideological evolutionists in the debate with creationism to be self-defeating, and pointed out, {{quote|that the natural sciences themselves create their own relations of authority, which are justified by the already always theory-laden character of the concept of experience and by the fact that they operate in theoretical paradigms that certainly have authoritative status.|ref=[1]}
Schwöbel was also director of the Institute for Hermeneutics and Dialogue of Cultures.
He was a member of the scientific advisory board of
- ^ Schwöbel: Being or Design - that is the Question Here. Christian faith in creation in the field of tension between evolutionism and creationism. In: Janowski, Schweitzer, Schwöbel (eds.): Schöpfungsglaube, 2010, pp. 120-171, here p. 123.