Tuve Skånberg

Tuve Skånberg
Member of the Swedish Riksdag for Skåne County North and East
Incumbent
Assumed office 4 October 2010
In office 30 September 1991 – 2 October 2006
Personal details
Born	(1956-04-09) 9 April 1956 Gothenburg, Sweden
Political party	Christian Democrats
Spouse	Eva Skånberg
Alma mater	Lund University
Occupation	Pastor

Tuve Martin Hugo Skånberg von Beetzen (born 1956) is a Swedish Christian Democratic politician, member of the Swedish Riksdag from 1991 to 2006 and again since 2010. Skånberg is Doctor of Theology of Lund University (2003) and a minister of the Mission Covenant Church of Sweden (1980).

Skånberg has a conservative Christian Democratic political profile. Among his more than 500 bills to the Swedish Riksdag, some have been considered controversial, as Riksdag bills against gay marriage and homosexual adoption, for the banning of blasphemy and for "nondiscrimination" of creationism in Swedish schools and in admission to graduate school.

Skånberg has been visiting fellow, Cambridge University (2001), visiting scholar at Jesus College, Cambridge (2001), distinguished professor in history at Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, US (2006), visiting scholar at Stanford University, US, (2006), adjunct associate professor of church history at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, US (2006/2007, 2010), guest professor in patristic at Saint Petersburg Evangelical Academy, Russia (2007), director of the Clapham Institute (2008).

Publications

• Sövestads by och dess gamla fogdesläkt (1991)
• "Till enn nådigh Lösen", Måns Bonde till Traneberg och konflikten med Gustav Vasa (2001)
• Glömda gudstecken. Från fornkyrklig dopliturgi till allmogens bomärken (2003) [1]
• I maktens korridorer. Handbok för nyblivna riksdagsledamöter (2006), coauthor Johnny Gylling)[2]

Sources

• The website of the Swedish Parliament Riksdagen
• Skånberg's website at the website of the Swedish Christian Democrats