Monday, December 18, 2023

The Gospel According to Thomas Sheehan

“Simon Peter missed the boat he should have taken and instead signed on as captain of the Titanic. That is, rather than leaving Jesus dead and then going on to live the Kingdom that Jesus had proclaimed, Simon hoped him out of the tomb and identified the Kingdom of God with the prophet who preached it.” That overemphasis on the person of Jesus, he argued, colored everything that came after.(See here)

Sheehan dropped the other shoe in 1986, with the publication of his book The First Coming: How the Kingdom of God Became Christianity. In it he elaborated on what he had sketched out in the New York Review of Books and made explicit his call for a radical shift from believing the right things about Jesus (orthodoxy) to doing the just and merciful things Jesus commanded (orthopraxis).(See here) At the same time he revealed he was no God-is-dead theologian.

Did Jesus think he was God? Is the Resurrection a made-up story? A conversation with Loyola’s controversial Christologist.
by Robert McClory
April 20, 1989, Chicago Reader 
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