Article by Professor Charles Stang, CSWR Director, Published in TANK Magazine, Issue 94, The Education Issue, Spring 2023.
Prof. Charles M. Stang was recently published in the UK-based magazine, Tank. Tank is a quarterly publication that covers contemporary culture, fashion, art, architecture, technology, and politics.
"I think something like “Transcendence and Transformation” is the direction in which the study of religion should go, and especially at a place like a divinity school. I am proud to teach at a divinity school, where the study of religion meets religion, where the rubber hits the road. And just as with rubber and road, it is only with this unique traction, tread, and – yes – friction, that we can move at all. So, let’s try to move."
"For when we worry that transcendence might be an escape from our here and now, I want to ask whether we should be confident that we know our here and now, or in the plural, our “heres” and our “nows,"" writes Charles Stang, Professor of Early Christian Thought and director of the Center for the Study of World Religions.
Read the full article in Tank Magazine.