Charles Stang joined the Faculty of Divinity in 2008. His research and teaching focus on the history and theology of Christianity in late antiquity, especially Eastern varieties of Christianity. More specifically, he is interested in the development of asceticism, monasticism, and mysticism in Eastern Christianity.

His most recent book, Our Divine Double, was published in 2016 by Harvard University Press. His earlier book, Apophasis and Pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite: "No Longer I" (Oxford University Press, 2012), won the Manfred Lautenschläger Award for Theological Promise in 2013. Stang is also editor of The Waking Dream of T.E. Lawrence: Essays on His Life, Literature, and Legacy (Palgrave, 2002); with Sarah Coakley, Rethinking Dionysius the Areopagite (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009); and with Zachary Guiliano, The Open Body: Essays in Anglican Ecclesiology (Peter Lang, 2012).

Stang's current projects include a book on the problem of evil in Christianity and Neoplatonism, entitled "Beyond God and Evil," to be published by Harvard University Press, and a new edition and translation of Evagrius of Pontus's Gnostic Trilogy (Praktikos, Gnostikos, Kephalaia Gnostika), to be published by Oxford University Press.

Other interests include ancient philosophy, especially Neoplatonism; the Syriac Christian tradition, especially the spread of the East Syrian tradition along the Silk Road; religions of the late antique Mediterranean, especially Manichaeism; and modern continental philosophy and theology, especially as they intersect with the study of religion.

In 2017, he became the director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at HDS.

Full CV

Selected publications

• Our Divine Double (Harvard University Press, 2016)
• The Open Body: Essays in Anglican Ecclesiology (Peter Lang, 2012)
• Apophasis and Pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite (Oxford University Press, 2012)
• Rethinking Dionysius the Areopagite (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)
• The Waking Dream of T.E. Lawrence: Essays on His Life, Literature, and Legacy (Palgrave, 2002)

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See also

• Review of Anne Carson's "Nox," Harvard Divinity Bulletin
• "Doubting Thomas, Restaged," Harvard Divinity Bulletin
• Review of 'The Road,' Harvard Divinity Bulletin

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