Jens Zimmermann is Associate Professor of German and English at Trinity Western University and has been awarded a five-year Canadian Council Research Chair in Interpretation, Religion, and Culture, beginning in the fall of 2006. He has published works across several disciplines, including Recovering Theological Hermeneutics: an Incarnational-Trinitarian Theory of Interpretation and, with Dr. Norman Klassen, The Passionate Intellect: Incarnational humanism and the future of university education.
Thomas Merton: A Man for All Seasons
Speaker(s): Jens Zimmerman, Lynn Szabo, Ron Dart
Date: January 29, 2015
Length: 1h50m
Product ID: RGDL4502C
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Many view Thomas Merton as one of the most significant contemplative theologians and prophetic Christian public thinkers of the 20th century. In January 2015 for the 100th anniversary of Merton's birth, the Merton Symposium featured lectures on significant aspects of Merton's life and writings.
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Lynn Szabo is a distinguished scholar of Thomas Merton and Emily Dickinson. Szabo is also a published poet, and she teaches creative writing at Trinity Western University.
Ron Dart is Professor of Political Science at University College of the Fraser Valley.
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