Tuve Skånberg

Tuve Martin Hugo Skånberg von Beetzen (born 9 April 1956) is a Swedish Christian Democratic politician, member of the Swedish Riksdag from 1991 to 2006 and again from 2010 to 2022. Skånberg is Doctor of Theology of Lund University (2003) and a minister of the Mission Covenant Church of Sweden (1980). He was President by age from 1 January 2020 until he left parliament on 26 September 2022.^[1]

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^[2] and homosexual adoption,^[3] for the banning of blasphemy^[4] and for "nondiscrimination" of creationism in Swedish schools and in admission to graduate school.^[5]

Skånberg has been a visiting fellow at Cambridge University (2001), a visiting scholar at Jesus College, Cambridge (2001), a distinguished professor in history at Graduate Theological Union (2006), a visiting scholar at Stanford University (2006), an adjunct associate professor of church history at Fuller Theological Seminary (2006/2007, 2010), a guest professor in patristic at Saint Petersburg Evangelical Academy (2007), and 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

References

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