Charles M. Stang
Charles Stang joined the Faculty of Divinity in 2008. His research and teaching focus on Christianity in late antiquity and, more broadly, philosophy and religion in the ancient Mediterranean world.
His recent books include Theosophy and the Study of Religion (Brill, 2024), The Gnostic Trilogy of Evagrius Ponticus (Oxford University Press, 2023), and Invitation to Syriac Christianity: An Anthology (University of California Press, 2022). His first monograph, Apophasis and Pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite: "No Longer I" (Oxford University Press, 2012), won the Manfred Lautenschläger Award for Theological Promise in 2013. His second monograph, Our Divine Double, was published in 2016 by Harvard University Press.
Stang's current projects include a book on daemons in ancient philosophy, translations of both Evagrius Ponticus’ Letter to Melania and Henry Corbin’s Le paradoxe du monothéisme, and an edited volume on “Platonism as a Living Tradition.”
In 2017, he became the director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at HDS.
Selected publications
- Theosophy and the Study of Religion (Brill, 2024)
- The Gnostic Trilogy of Evagrius Ponticus (Oxford University Press, 2023)
- Invitation to Syriac Christianity: An Anthology (University of California Press, 2022)
- Our Divine Double (Harvard University Press, 2016)
- Apophasis and Pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite (Oxford University Press, 2012)
- The Waking Dream of T.E. Lawrence: Essays on His Life, Literature, and Legacy (Palgrave, 2002)
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See also
- “Water Worlds,” in Theosis 1
- “The Smoldering Superhuman,” Harvard Divinity Bulletin
- “The Dream of the Sphere: A Dispatch from the Flatland,” Tank Magazine
- “Dune, or The Order of Time,” Harvard Divinity Bulletin
- “The Time of Stars,” in The Wings of Herons
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