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Christoph Schwöbel was professor of systematic theology and director of the Institute of Hermeneutics and Cultural Dialogue at the University of Tübingen until his death in 2021; he assumed the 1643 Chair in Divinity at the University of St. Andrews in September 2018. Schwöbel also taught at the Universities of Marburg, Kiel, and Heidelberg, as well as King’s College at the University of London. Schwöbel served as president of Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Theologie, the association of theologians teaching in universities in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. He had many publications in both English and German, including Gott im Gespräch. Theologische Studien zur Gegenwartsdeutung (2011), Die Religion des Zauberers. Theologisches in den großen Romanen Thomas Manns (2008), Christlicher Glaube im Pluralismus. Studien zu einer Theologie der Kultur (2003), Gott in Beziehung (2002), and God: Action and Revelation (1992).