Jens Zimmermann

Dr. Jens Zimmermann is J. I. Packer Professor of Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, BC. He was born and raised in Germany. He studied at the University of British Columbia, earning his first Ph.D in Comparative Literature in 1997. He taught at UBC briefly before moving on to Trinity Western, where held the Canada Research Chair of Interpretation, Religion and Culture from 2006 to 2016. In 2010, he earned a second Ph.D in Philosophy from the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany....See more

Dr. Jens Zimmermann is J. I. Packer Professor of Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, BC. He was born and raised in Germany. He studied at the University of British Columbia, earning his first Ph.D in Comparative Literature in 1997. He taught at UBC briefly before moving on to Trinity Western, where held the Canada Research Chair of Interpretation, Religion and Culture from 2006 to 2016. In 2010, he earned a second Ph.D in Philosophy from the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. He was awarded a research fellowship at Cambridge University (Trinity Hall) for 2016-17, and a British Academy Visiting Fellowship in theology at the University of Oxford (Christ Church College) for 2018-2019. He is currently visiting fellow at Oxford University's Centre for Theology and Modern European Thought and also a research fellow at the University of the Free State, South Africa (2021-2023). His main intellectual interests are anthropology and epistemology. He has pursued these two central questions across a broad range of interests that include theological anthropology, hermeneutics, European literature, Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Paul Ricoeur, the church fathers, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Eastern Orthodox theology. See less