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Jens Zimmermann (Jens Michael Zimmermann) was born on 1965 in Germany, is a Canadian philosopher. Discover Jens Zimmermann's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 59 years old?

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Occupation Philosopher, linguist, professor
Age 59 years old
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1965

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.

Zimmermann was born in 1965 in Germany, where he was raised.

1988

He began studying Music in Düsseldorf in 1988 before moving to Canada in 1990, where he attended University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

1992

He graduated with a B.A. in English in 1992.

1993

He would receive an M.A. in Comparative Literature in 1993, and a PhD in the same field in 1997.

1995

Zimmermann began his teaching career at University of British Columbia in 1995 as a sessional instructor in English and German.

1997

His 1997 PhD dissertation was entitled English Puritans and German Pietists: A Re- Examination of Pre-Critical Hermeneutics in Light of the Anthropocentric Turn in Hermeneutics.

1998

He left University of British Columbia in 1998.

He started working at Langley campus of Trinity Western University in British Columbia where he was an assistant professor of English literature and language, German literature and language, and philosophy.

2002

In 2002, he was promoted to associate professor of English and Cultural Studies and philosophy.

2004

Zimmermann wrote his first book in 2004 entitled Recovering Theological Hermeneutics.

2006

In 2006, he became Trinity Western's Canada Research Chair for Interpretation, Religion, and Culture, a position that he held until 2016.

Also in 2006, Zimmermann began studying a PhD in Philosophy at University of Mainz (known in Germany as Johannes Gutenberg University) in Mainz, Germany.

He specialized in philosophical and theological anthropology and his dissertation was called Humanism and Religion: A Philosophical Examination.

In 2006, Zimmermann co-wrote the book The Passionate Intellect: Incarnational Humanism and the Future of University Education with Norman Klassen, the associate professor of English at St. Jerome's University in Waterloo, Ontario.

2007

He published his only German-language work in October 2007, which was titled Theologische Hermeneutik: Ein Trinitarisch-Christologischer Entwur (in English: Theological Hermeneutics A Trinitarian Christological Draft).

2010

He received the PhD in June 2010.

After the reception of his second PhD in 2010, he was promoted again to become the professor of Philosophy & Theology at Trinity Western.

2012

He published a second edition in 2012.

In 2012, Zimmermann published Incarnational Humanism: A Philosophy of Culture for the Church in the World.

Between 2012 and 2019, Zimmermann published three books for Oxford University via Oxford University Press.

These books were Humanism and Religion: A Call for The Renewal of Western Culture (2012), Hermeneutics: A Very Short Introduction (2015), and Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Christian Humanism (2019).

2013

This book won the 2013 Book Prize from the Center for Christian-Evangelical Dialogue.

The book was regarded as the first book in the field of "incarnational humanism".

The book explores Zimmermann's philosophy of a deeply faith-baith society.

He drew inspiration from the works of Irenaeus, Augustine of Hippo, Henri de Lubac, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

2016

Between 2016 and 2019, Zimmermann was involved with theology education in England.

He served as a Visiting Research Fellow of theology to Trinity Hall at University of Cambridge from September 2016 to June 2017.

He was nominated for the Louisville Grawemeyer Award from Oxford University in 2016 for Humanism and Religion.

During this time he also edited the four-volume book Re-Envisioning Christian Humanism: Education and the Restoration of Humanity (2016) which compiles analyses of Christianity and humanism.

2017

In 2017, while still employed by both Trinity Western and Cambridge universities, he was invited to serve as a visiting professor of philosophy, literature, and theology at Regent College in Vancouver.

2019

He then served as a British Academy Visiting Research Fellow in philosophical theology to University of Oxford from August 2019 to February 2019.

He served as a visiting professor until 2019, and a year later he was brought into Regent University full time as the J.I. Packer Chair of Theology which he still holds as of March 2023.

Zimmermann's studies originally focused on linguistics as his first degrees and professorial jobs were in the fields of English and German.

He studied early American literature, the Victorian novel, and English poet John Milton while attaining his bachelor's degree.

His shift into Comparative Literature saw him study more philosophy and theology through his studies of hermeneutics, iconoclasm, Reformation, English Puritanism, literary theory, and Middle Ages religious literature in Germany and England.