Philosopher

Jens Zimmermann (philosopher)

Overview

Dr. Jens Michael Zimmermann (born 1965) is a German-Canadian Christian philosopher, theologian, and professor who specializes in hermeneutics and the philosophical and theological roots of humanism.

Zimmermann is a longtime educator in Vancouver. He is currently the J.I. Packer Chair of Theology at Regent College. and the professor of philosophy and theology at Trinity Western University.

He is considered the inventor of "incarnational humanism", a social philosophy combining modern humanism and Christian humanism based in incarnation.

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Ideas Jens Zimmermann (philosopher) discusses

• Christian humanism
• Germany
• Hans-Georg Gadamer
• Iconoclasm
• John Milton
• Middle Ages
• Christian philosophy
• Augustine of Hippo
• Mainz
• Professor
• Victorian literature
• Linguistics
• Puritans
• University of Cambridge
• Theology
• University of Oxford
• Vancouver
• Martin Heidegger
• Reformation
• Incarnation (Christianity)
• Oxford University Press
• Canada
• Literary theory
• Humanism

Place in the tradition

Part of Christian humanism.

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