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.Dagen.se, läst 2 januari 2020. (in Swedish)
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 marriageMotion till riksdagen 2003/04:L304 and homosexual adoption,Motion till riksdagen 1999/2000:L420 for the banning of blasphemyMotion till riksdagen 1999/2000:K286 and for "nondiscrimination" of creationism in Swedish schools and in admission to graduate school.Motion till riksdagen 1991/92:Ub287
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) I maktens korridorer. Handbok för nyblivna riksdagsledamöter (2006), coauthor Johnny Gylling)
Sources The website of the Swedish Parliament Riksdagen Skånberg's website at the website of the Swedish Christian Democrats
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