John Lennox

John Lennox, Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University (emeritus), is an internationally renowned speaker on the interface of science, philosophy, and religion. He regularly teaches at many academic institutions, is a Senior Fellow with the Trinity Forum, and has written a series of books exploring the relationship between science and Christianity.

He has lectured extensively in North America, Eastern and Western Europe, and Australasia on mathematics, the philosophy of science, and the intellectual defense of Christianity. He has written a number of books on the interface between science, philosophy, and theology. These include God’s Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? (2009), God and Stephen Hawking, a response to The Grand Design (2011), Gunning for God, on the new atheism (2011), and Seven Days that Divide the World, on the first chapters of Genesis (2011). He has also written a number of books exploring biblical themes, including Against the Flow (2015), on the topic of Daniel, Determined to Believe? (2017), on the subject of free will and God’s sovereignty, Joseph (2019), on the story in Genesis, and the ‘Key Bible Concepts’ series, co-written with David Gooding (in the 1990s). His most recent titles are Have No Fear (2018), on evangelism today, Can Science Explain Everything? (2019), on the relationship between science and Christianity, and the six-part ‘Quest for Reality and Significance’ series co-written by David Gooding (2018–9). Furthermore, in addition to over seventy published mathematical papers, he is the co-author of two research-level texts in algebra in the Oxford Mathematical Monographs series.

He debated Richard Dawkins on “The God Delusion” in the University of Alabama (2007) and on “Has Science buried God?” in the Oxford Museum of Natural History (2008). He has also debated Christopher Hitchens on the New Atheism (Edinburgh Festival, 2008) and the question of “Is God Great?” (Samford University, 2010), as well as Peter Singer on the topic of “Is there a God?” (Melbourne, 2011). Furthermore, he has participated in public discussions on topics similar to those of many other academics on campuses around the world.

John is married to Sally, they have three grown up children and nine grandchildren and live near Oxford, England.