Thomas Sheehan Professor, Department of Religious Studies Stanford University

Thomas Sheehan is Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University and the author of The First Coming, a widely acclaimed and controversial account of Easter.  His philosophical specialties are in philosophy of religion, twentieth-century European philosophy, and classical metaphysics. His interests in biblical history exegesis include first-century Christianity and early Jewish and Christian apocalyptic.

Books

• Edmund Husserl: Psychological and Transcendental Phenomenology, and the Confrontation with Heidegger, ed., Thomas Sheehan and Richard E. Palmer, 1997
• Karl Rahner: The Philosophical Foundations, 1987
• The First Coming: How the Kingdom of God Became Christianity, 1986
• Heidegger, the Man and the Thinker, ed. Thomas Sheehan , 1981

Academic Credentials

• B.A., St. Patrick's College
• M.A., Fordham University
• Ph.D., Fordham University

Academic Appointments

• Stanford University, 1999–
• Loyola University of Chicago, 1972 –1999

Award and Honors

• Ford Foundation Fellow,  1983–1985
• American Academy in Rome, Resident Scholar, 1983
• National Endowment for the Humanities, 1980
• Fritz Thyssen Foundation, 1979–1980
• Director, Collegium Phenomenologicum, Perugia, Italy, 1978
• Mellon Foundation Grant, 1975

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