Krister Stendahl, NT scholar, swedish theologian, former bishop of Sweden, and former Dean of Harvard Divinity School, died this morning on april 15th 2008. A funeral service is planned for Friday morning at University Lutheran Church, and a memorial service to be held at Harvard's Memorial Church is being planned for sometime in May. Details on that University event and on other chances to recall, celebrate, and honor Krister will be communicated as soon as we know them, by email as well as on the HDS website. Please keep all of the Stendahl family in your thoughts and prayers.
the ny times has an obituary:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/16/us/16stendahl.html?_r=1&sq=stendahl&st=nyt&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&scp=1&adxnnlx=1208350817-uLl+xlTiI7uCnsr1NW2pIQ
below is harvard's obituary on stendahl:
http://www.hds.harvard.edu/news/article_archive/stendahl.html
see the wiki entry on stendahl:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krister_Stendahl
also an address given by him below delivered in 2001 as the Edward L. Mark Lecture at Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church:
http://www.hds.harvard.edu/news/bulletin_mag/articles/35-1_stendahl.html
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