Christianity & Politics
Course Description
Offered | 2026 Winter |
Dates | Jan 12 - Apr 17 |
Days | Tue |
Format | Onsite Only |
Credit Hours | 3 |
Room Number | Rm 010 |
Teaching Faculty

Craig Gay
Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies
Craig Gay lectures in the area of Christianity, Society, and Culture, and directs Regent’s ThM degree program. He is the author of With Liberty or Justice for Whom? (Eerdmans, 1991); The Way of the (Modern) World (Eerdmans, 1998); Cash Values: The Value of Money the Nature of Worth (Eerdmans, 2004); Dialogue, Catalogue and Monologue (Regent College Publishing, 2008); and Modern Technology and the Human Future: A Christian Appraisal (IVP Academic, 2018). He was also the co-editor (with C. Peter Molloy) of The Way of Truth in the Present Age (Regent College, 1999). He has contributed chapters to a number of collections on the subjects of modernity, secularization, economic ethics, and technology, and his articles and reviews have appeared in Christian Scholar’s Review, American Journal of Sociology, Crux, and Markets & Morality. Craig Gay is an active member of St. John’s (Vancouver) Anglican Church. He and his wife Julie have four grown children.

Jens Zimmermann
J.I. Packer Professor of Theology
Dr. Jens Zimmermann was born and raised in Germany. He studied at the University of British Columbia, earning his first PhD in Comparative Literature in 1997. He taught at UBC briefly before moving on to Trinity Western University, where he held the Canada Research Chair of Interpretation, Religion and Culture from 2006 to 2016. In 2010, Jens earned a second PhD in Philosophy from the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. While continuing at TWU, he also served as Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Literature & Theology at Regent College from 2016 to 2019. He was also a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge (Trinity Hall, 2017–2018), and a British Academy Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford (Christ Church College, 2018–2019). He is currently Visiting Fellow at the Center for Theology and Modern European Thought at The University of Oxford.