Thomas Sheehan

Professor, Department of Religious Studies

Stanford University, California

Thomas Sheehan is Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University and the author of The First Coming. His academic specialties are in phenomenology, philosophy of religion, and classical metaphysics. His interests in biblical history and exegesis include first-century Christianity and early Jewish and Christian apocalyptic.

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Books

• Making Sense of Heidegger: A Paradigm Shift, 2014
• Becoming Heidegger: On the Trail of his Early Occasional Writings, 1910–1927, rev. 2011
• Martin Heidegger, Logic: The Question of Truth, ed. and trans. Thomas Sheehan, 2010.
• 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 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