He was later Professor at the Divinity School at Harvard University, where he also served as dean, before being elected Bishop of Stockholm in 1984.
Stendahl was the second director of the Center for Religious Pluralism at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.
[3] Stendahl is perhaps most famous for his publication of the article "The Apostle Paul and the Introspective Conscience of the West".
According to Stendahl, the main concern of Paul's writings on Jesus' role, and salvation by faith, is the problem of the inclusion of gentile (Greek) Torah observers into God's covenant.
[5][6][7][note 1] He specifically argues that later interpreters of Paul have assumed a hyper-active conscience when they have begun exegesis of his works.