#  Charles M. Stang 

Professor of Early Christian Thought

Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions

 

 

 



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## Education

- AB, Harvard College
- MDiv, University of Chicago
- ThD, Harvard Divinity School

## Profile

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), *Evagrius of Pontus: The Gnostic Trilogy* (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.

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

[Full CV (PDF)](https://www.hds.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum5526/files/2025-06/Stang%20CV.pdf)

## Selected publications

- [*Theosophy and the Study of Religion*](https://brill.com/display/title/69236?language=en&srsltid=AfmBOoo0rgTbrpTnxJSKZaru_m7Z51W5VsA27-bG75mY0KOBwBL4WKp-) (Brill, 2024)
- [*Evagrius Pontus: The Gnostic Trilogy*](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/evagrius-of-pontus-9780199997671?cc=us&lang=en&) (Oxford University Press, 2023)
- [*Invitation to Syriac Christianity: An Anthology*](https://www.ucpress.edu/books/invitation-to-syriac-christianity/paper) (University of California Press, 2022)
- [*Our Divine Double*](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674287198) (Harvard University Press, 2016)
- [*Apophasis and Pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite*](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/apophasis-and-pseudonymity-in-dionysius-the-areopagite-9780199640423?q=apophasis%20and%20pseudo&lang=en&cc=us) (Oxford University Press, 2012)
- [*The Waking Dream of T.E. Lawrence: Essays on His Life, Literature, and Legacy*](https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9780312237578) (Palgrave, 2002)

## Support

To reach Harvard Divinity School's faculty coordinators, email [div-faculty\_coordinators@calists.harvard.edu](mailto:div-faculty_coordinators@calists.harvard.edu).

## See also

- “Water Worlds,” in *Theosis* 1
- [“The Smoldering Superhuman,”](https://bulletin.hds.harvard.edu/the-smoldering-superhuman/)*Harvard Divinity Bulletin*
- [“The Dream of the Sphere: A Dispatch from the Flatland,”](https://magazine.tank.tv/issue-94/features/charles-m-stang) *Tank Magazine*
- [“*Dune*, or The Order of Time,”](https://bulletin.hds.harvard.edu/dune-or-the-order-of-time/)*Harvard Divinity Bulletin*
- [“The Time of Stars,”](https://issuu.com/rfa-publications/docs/the_wings_of_herons_for_issuu) in *The Wings of Herons*

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- ## Faculty Type
    
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- ## Media Expertise
    
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- ## Office
    
     [Center for the Study of World Religions](/office/center-study-world-religions)