John Lennox in NZ Feb/March 2011

Posted on February 17

John Lennox is Professor of Mathematics in the University of Oxford, Fellow in Mathematics and the Philosophy of Science, and Pastoral Advisor at Green Templeton College, Oxford. He is also an adjunct Lecturer at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University and at the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics and is a Senior Fellow of the Trinity Forum. In addition, he teaches for the Oxford Strategic Leadership Programme at the Executive Education Centre, Said Business School, Oxford University.

He studied at the Royal School Armagh, Northern Ireland and was Exhibitioner and Senior Scholar at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University from which he took his MA and PhD. He worked for many years in the Mathematics Institute at the University of Wales in Cardiff which awarded him a DSc for his research. He also holds a DPhil from Oxford University and an MA in Bioethics from the University of Surrey. He was a Senior Alexander Von Humboldt Fellow at the Universities of Wuerzburg and Freiburg in Germany. 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.

His book, on the interface between science, philosophy and theology, is God’s Undertaker – Has Science Buried God?, Oxford, Lion-Hudson 2009. He has lectured extensively in North America, Eastern and Western Europe on mathematics, the philosophy of science and the intellectual defence of Christianity.

His most recent book, God and Stephen Hawking, Oxford, Lion-Hudson 2011 is a swift and forthright reply to Stephen Hawking’s latest blockbuster, ‘The Grand Design’. In it John Lennox exposes the flaws in Hawking’s logic and demonstrates that far from disproving a Creator God, Hawking’s arguments make his existence seem all the more probable.

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 in Samford University, Alabama on the question: Is God Great?

His hobbies are languages, amateur astronomy, amateur bird-watching and some walking. John is married to Sally, they have three grown up children and four grandchildren and live near Oxford.

Learn more by listening to some of John Lennox’s lectures, teaching, & debates:

A lecture tour that includes the following events:

AUCKLAND, New Zealand

Sunday 27 February:

9:30 – 11:00am PUBLIC ®Preaching at Howick Baptist Church

1:00 – 3:00pm PUBLIC ® Q&A with John Lennox, at Salvation Army (East City Corps) 37-45 Wellington Street, Howick Auckland (hosted by Howick Baptist Church)

7pm PUBLIC ®Speaking at Greenlane Christian Centre

Monday 28 February:

AM – Various radio interviews in AM

1:00 – 2:00pm Discussion with Maxim Interns, “Why I believe”

2:30 – 4:00pm Discussion with Maxim/ Compass NZ staff, “Christianity in the Public Sphere”

7:00 – 9:00pm PUBLIC ® Lecture: “Christianity and the Philosophers An evening with John Lennox” at St. Paul’s.

Tuesday 1 March:

AM – Free, possible radio interviews

 

12:00 – 1:00pm PUBLIC ®Student Lecture at Auckland University (Room TBA), “Has Science Buried God?” (organised by TSCF)

1:00-2:00pm PUBLIC ®Student Lecture at Auckland University (Room TBA), “Has Science Buried God?” (organised by TSCF)

3:00pm Meeting for Christian Academic Staff, “Faithfully Engaging with the Academy”

4:30-6:30 Meeting with TSCF staff team

 

7:30-9:30pm PUBLIC ® Student Meeting organised by TSCF for Christian students/Young Adults & their non-Christian friends, “So you want to change the world?” (441 Queen Street, TSCF Offices)

 

Wednesday 2 March:

8:30 Speaking at World Vision chapel

Afternoon: Lecturing for the Oxford Strategic Leadership Programme

WELLINGTON, New Zealand

7pm PUBLIC ® Lecture: “Why God Loves Richard Dawkins?” or “God and Stephen Hawking) at St Michael’s, Kelburn

Thursday 3 March:

Lecturing for the Oxford Strategic Leadership Programme

Friday 4 March:

Lecturing for the Oxford Strategic Leadership Programme

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand

Sunday 6 March:

PUBLIC ®Speaking at Spreydon Baptist Church (9am, 11am and 7pm)