SHEEN, THOMAS (1718 - 1790), Methodist exhorter, afterwards an Antinomian

He was christened in Glascwm church, Radnorshire, 8 November 1718, the son of William and Margaret Sheen of the parish. No information is available as to when he started exhorting in the Methodist societies. In 1748 he succumbed to the 'heretical' doctrines propounded by James Beaumont. In 1750 he adhered to Howel Harris's party, but soon afterwards left it and formed his own sect in the district round Builth. He is said to have influenced others, such as Moses Lewis and Thomas Meredith. It is believed that the doctrines preached by him and his associates were a mixture of mysticism and Monophysitism (or, perhaps, Apollinarianism). One of his followers, Walter Watkin of Brecon, wrote an elegy in his memory. He died 28 February 1790.

Author

• Reverend Gomer Morgan Roberts, (1904 - 1993)

Sources

• W. Watkin, Marwnad Thomas Sheen (1790), 1790
• Methodistiaeth Cymru (1851–6), iii, 316
• Robert Jones (Rhoslan), Drych yr Amseroedd (Trefriw 1820), 136
• J. Morgan Jones and W. Morgan, Y Tadau Methodistaidd (1895-1897), i, 226
• J. Gwili Jenkins, Hanfod Duw a Pherson Crist: athrawiaeth y Drindod a Duwdod Crist, yn bennaf yn ei pherthynas â Chymru (Liverpool 1931), 140
• Cambrian Bibliography (Llanidloes 1869), 652
• The Transactions of the Radnorshire Society, xiv, 1944
• Y Traethodydd, 1946, 97-102

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q20734529

Published date: 1959

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