Tietjen then is to recognize the gift he left the church in his little book, The Gospel According to Jesus. I am one of those who wore the black T-shirt with pride and which read, “No learnin’ without Tietjen.” I can speak for most Seminexers whose short list for his/her most influential voices will most certainly include the name John H. One will have to check other sources for the account of John Tietjen’s life and the controversy in which he found himself embroiled but to many of us Tietjen will forever be remembered and esteemed as a man of faithful, pristine integrity. John Tietjen, of course, is a name, which many in Lutheran circles will recognize, most notably for participating in a period of history that was both painful and yet enormously creative. Published posthumously, it is the author’s gift of love and rare insight to the church and, hopefully, beyond. John Tietjen’s little volume, The Gospel According to Jesus, falls quite clearly into the latter. Such a work would have to be incredibly reckless or unbelievably faithful.
Even efforts, which have presumed to come close, such as Dostoevsky’s The Grand Inquisitor or Kazantzakis’ Last Temptation of Christ or The Greek Passion, did not quite manage to get into Jesus’ skin to tell the story. To write a first-person account of the life of Jesus, when that voice is Jesus’ own, is a daunting task, rarely undertaken.
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