Faculty
Charles M. Stang
Assistant Professor of Early Christian Thought
- AB, Harvard College
- MDiv, University of Chicago
- ThD, Harvard Divinity School
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Charles Stang joined the Faculty of Divinity in July 2008. His research and teaching focus on the history and theology of Christianity in late antiquity, especially Eastern varieties of Christianity. His recent research centers on the development of the ascetico-mystical tradition in Eastern Christianity, and focuses on the early-sixth-century theologian "Pseudo" Dionysius the Areopagite, who is widely regarded as the fountainhead of "negative" theology. His dissertation investigates the significance of pseudonymity for the author's mystical theology and theological anthropology. This "anthropological" dimension of his dissertation has led him to a broader consideration of notions of selfhood or subjectivity in late antique Christianity. Other interests include Syriac Christian literature; the history of ancient philosophy, especially Neoplatonism; early Islam, especially the history of early Sufism; religions of the late antique Mediterranean; and modern continental philosophy and theology, especially as it intersects with the study of religion.