Christian Schwarke

Christian Schwarke (born August 13, 1960 in Hamburg ) is a Protestant theologian and professor of systematic theology in Dresden .

He graduated from high school in 1980 and studied theology in Hamburg and Munich from 1981 to 1986 and was a research assistant at the LMU Munich with Trutz Rendtorff from 1986 to 1990 . Schwarke received his doctorate in 1990. From 1991 to 1993 he was vicar in Norderstedt near Hamburg and was then ordained . Afterwards he was again Wiss. Employee at the Institute for Technology, Theology and Natural Sciences at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. He completed his habilitation in 1997. From 1997 to 1999 he was a pastor in Hamburg and during this time also took on professorships and teaching positions in Dresden and Hamburg. Since 2000 he has been Professor of Systematic Theology at the Technical University of Dresden as successor to Klaus Tanner. From 1994 to 2003 he was a member of the ethics committee (III) of the Charité , Berlin.

Schwarke's research interests include a. Technical ethics , especially genetic engineering , and medical ethics .

Important publications

• Jesus came to Washington. The legitimacy of American democracy from the spirit of Protestantism (1991)
• The culture of genes. A theological hermeneutics of genetic engineering (2000)
• with Biewald, Roland: Weltbilder - Menschenbilder. Natural science and theology in dialogue. Information, didactic advice and materials for teaching in the upper secondary level (topic book Religion 3) Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt 2003.
• (Ed.) Ethics in Science and Technology. Experiences and perspectives in interdisciplinary dialogue , Bonn: Friedrich Ebert Foundation 1994.
• Responsibility and the image of man: Contributions to interdisciplinary ethics and anthropology / Hermann Hepp; Nikolaus Knoepffler  ; Christian Schwarke; Munich: Utz, Wiss. 1997

Web links

• Literature by and about Christian Schwarke in the catalog of the German National Library