Bishop Michael Curry: "There is power in love"
Posted: May 20th, 2018, 1:34 pm
Professor Krister Stendahl, theologian and Lutheran Bishop, often talked about "holy envy":
I think that the idea of holy envy can be applied to things that are more cultural and not specified by the doctrines or principles of a church.
I feel holy envy for religions were preaching is more lively. In LDS church we tend to have very restrained style of giving speeches. Yet we could speak in a way that is lively yet appropriate for worship. A good example is the talk the Episcopal Bishop Michael Curry gave in the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle:
Stendahl's idea is often used in connection to doctrinal ideas or institutional traditions. He himself introduced his rules of religious understanding when Stockholm temple was dedicated in 1985.Bishop Krister Stendahl (former presiding Lutheran bishop of Sweden and formerly of Harvard Divinity School) proposes certain ground rules for interfaith dialogue. One of them is, “Leave room for holy envy.” That is a beautiful idea. The fact that I can see something beautiful in another’s religious tradition should not make me feel disloyal in any way to my own tradition.
Leaving Room for Holy Envy by David Rosen in Finding God at BYU
I think that the idea of holy envy can be applied to things that are more cultural and not specified by the doctrines or principles of a church.
I feel holy envy for religions were preaching is more lively. In LDS church we tend to have very restrained style of giving speeches. Yet we could speak in a way that is lively yet appropriate for worship. A good example is the talk the Episcopal Bishop Michael Curry gave in the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle: