Jens Zimmerman

Dr. Jens Zimmermann is J. I. Packer Professor of Theology and the Director of the James M. Houston Centre for Humanity and the Common Good at Regent College in Vancouver, BC. He holds PhDs in Comparative Literature (University of British Colombia) and Philosophy (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany) and serves as the Visiting Fellow at the Center for Theology and Modern European Thought at the University of Oxford.

A philosophical theologian, Zimmerman’s interests lie in philosophical anthropology and epistemology. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including What Is Christian Humanism? Recovering a Human Society (Oxford University Press, October 2026). Read more about his work at his website.

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Links to posts and programs featuring Jens Zimmerman:

  • Thoughts about higher education — Four thoughtful academics discuss how the fact of the Incarnation should inform the ends of higher education. (16 minutes)
  • The Vocation of Knowledge: Higher Education and the Difference Christ Makes — Mark Noll (The Future of Christian Learning), Norman Klassen & Jens Zimmermann, (The Passionate Intellect: Incarnational Humanism and the Future of University Education),and James K. A. Smith explore the nature of Christian education. (78 minutes)
  • The faith within reason — Jens Zimmerman on the necessary component of belief in all human knowing
  • Six recent books worthy of note — Ken Myers shares a summary of six recent books that we want our listeners to know about but whose authors we won’t be interviewing. (15 minutes)
  • Parsing the intellectual vocation — Norman Klassen and Jens Zimmermann demonstrate that some form of humanism has always been central to the purposes of higher education, and insist that the recovery of a rich, Christocentric Christian humanism is the only way for the university to recover a coherent purpose. (39 minutes)
  • Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 86 — FEATURED GUESTS: Roger Lundin, Lawrence Buell, Harold K. Bush, Jr., Katherine Shaw Spaht, Steven L. Nock, Norman Klassen, and Jens Zimmermann