Christoph Schwöbel (19 February 1955 – 18 September 2021) was a German Lutheran Theologian and Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.
He studied Lutheran Theology and Philosophy at the Kirchliche Hochschule, Bethel, and at Philipps-Universität Marburg.He received his doctorate in 1978 in Marburg and qualified there as a professor, through his Habilitation, in 1990.
He considered the juxtaposition natural science versus faith used by many ideological evolutionists in the debate with creationism to be self-defeating, and pointed out 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 give them their authoritative status.
He was a member of the scientific advisory board of the interdisciplinary research center Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses (KCID) at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
[3] In September 2018, Schwöbel succeeded the English theologian John Webster as Chair of Divinity at the University of St Andrews, established in 1643.