John Lennox

Professor John Lennox

Honorary Fellow

John Lennox is Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University. 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.

He also holds an MA in Bioethics. Professor Lennox 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. He has debated a number of the world's leading atheists including Christopher Hitchens at the Edinburgh Festival (2008), and Richard Dawkins in both Alabama, USA and Oxford, England.

His books include God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? and Christianity: Opium or Truth? (co-authored with David Gooding). Professor Lennox's teaching for the OCCA includes material on Science and Religion, New Atheism and Ethics.