Erwin Fahlbusch (born 26 May 1926 in Frankfurt am Main; died 10 August 2007 in Montouliers, Département Hérault, France) was a research consultant at Konfessionskundliches Institut in Bensheim and was an honorary professor of systematic theology in the Faculty of Evangelical Theology at the University of Frankfurt for many years.
He began studying theology in the summer semester of 1947 as a guest student at the seminar of the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences and then took his matriculation examination in Frankfurt am Main before being able to study at the theological faculties of the universities of Mainz, Erlangen and Göttingen.
He passed the first theological exam in September 1952 with the dissertation Die Lehre von der Revolution bei Friedrich Julius Stahl followed by his studies.
In May 1959 Fahlbusch went to Bocholt as a full-time religion teacher at primary, secondary and vocational schools and from March 1960 to the Westphalian diaspora community of Mesum as a synodal vicar.
Erwin Fahlbusch retired in May 1991; he held lectures at the University of Frankfurt am Main until the winter semester 1992/1993.
The starting point of theological work should no longer be a revealed truth, but rather the concrete daily situation, "what must contain salvation, redemption, liberation, and humanity."