Charles M. Stang | Harvard Divinity School (HDS)

Education

• AB, Harvard College

• MDiv, University of Chicago

• Ph.D., Harvard Divinity School

Profile

Charles Stang joined the Faculty of Theology in 2008. In 2017, he became director of the HDS Center for the Study of World Religions.

His research and teaching focus on the history of Christianity in the context of the ancient Mediterranean world, especially eastern varieties of Christianity. In particular, his interests include: the development of asceticism, monasticism and mysticism in Christianity; ancient philosophy, especially Neoplatonism; Syriac Christian tradition, especially the spread of the East Syrian tradition along the Silk Road; other philosophical and religious movements of the ancient Mediterranean, including Gnosticism, Hermeticism and Manichaeism; and modern continental philosophy and theology, especially as they intersect with the study of religion.

His latest book Our divine twinwas published in 2016 by Harvard University Press. His early book Apophasis and pseudonym in Dionysius the Areopagite: “No longer I” (Oxford University Press, 2012), received the Manfred Lautenschläger Prize for Theological Promise in 2013. Stang is also the magazine’s editor T. E. Lawrence’s Daydream: Sketches of His Life, Literature and Legacy (Palgrave, 2002); with Sarah Coakley Rethinking Dionysius the Areopagite (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009); with David Linsicum and Ruth Sheridan, Law and lawlessness in early Judaism and Christianity (Mor Siebeck, 2019).

Stang’s current projects include an anthology of Syriac Christian literature, a new translation of Evagrius Pontus. Gnostic trilogy from the Greek and Syriac, and an edited volume on the influence of Theosophy on the study of religion.

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