John Lennox

Professor John Lennox

John Lennox is Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University and fellow in the Philosophy of Science at Green College, Oxford, and Joint Director of the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics (OCCA).

He studied at Cambridge, from which he holds the degrees of MA and PhD, and was subsequently Reader in Pure Mathematics at the University of Wales, where he was awarded a DSc degree. He also holds an MA in Bioethics. He is interested in the interface of Science, Philosophy and Theology and has lectured and written many articles and several books on both mathematics and Christian apologetics.

John has debated a number of the world’s leading atheists including Christopher Hitchens at the Edinburgh festival (2008), and Richard Dawkins who he debated for the second time in Oxford’s Natural History Museum, the same venue that hosted the famous Huxley vs Wilberforce debate of 1860. His books include God’s Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? and Christianity: Opium or Truth? (co-authored with David Gooding).

John and his wife Sally live near Oxford. 

 


 
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