John C. Lennox M.A., PhD., DPhil., DSC se narodil v Armagh (Severní Irsko) v rodině vedoucího obchodního domu. Jeho rodiče ho odmala vedli ke křesťanské víře. Když se na univerzitě v Cambridge dostal do akademického prostředí, kde se mimo jiné zúčastnil také jedné z posledních přednášek teologa C. S. Lewise, musel svou víru vystavit kritice ostatních akademiků a sám ji také přezkoumat. Zjistil, že čím více ji vystavuje kritice, tím silněji je přesvědčen, že pro víru v Boha existují důkazy a racionální argumenty.
Strávil téměř třicet let jako profesor matematiky na univerzitě v Cardiffu, učil i na univerzitě ve Würzburgu, Freiburgu a Vídni.
Poté co hnutí Nových ateistů (zvláště po 11. září) začalo kritizovat vliv náboženství na člověka a historii, vystoupil John Lennox jako mluvčí a obhájce křesťanství. Debaty s předními ateisty, jako například Richardem Dawkinsem nebo Christopherem Hitchensem byly vysoce sledované a vedly k vydání jeho argumentace v knižní podobě (God’s Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? (2009), Gunning for God (2011), and Seven Days that Divide the World (2011)). Jeho oponentem na dálku je také Stephen Hawking, na jehož publikaci The Grand Design (2011) Lennox odpověděl svou knihou God and Stephen Hawking (2011).
Lennoxe bychom mohli zařadit mezi křesťanské apologety, jako byl C. S. Lewis (předchůdce) nebo Lee Strobel (současník). Zabývá se jak pozitivní, tak negativní apologetikou.
V současnosti je profesorem matematiky a filozofie na univerzitě v Oxfordu a pastorační poradce na Green Templeton College v Oxfordu.
J.C.Lennox
CURRICULUM VITAE
Date of update of C.V: 1.5.2014
Name: John Carson LENNOX
Date of Birth: 7.11.1943
Current position: Professor of Mathematics, Oxford University, Fellow in Mathematics and Philosophy of Science, and Pastoral Advisor, Green Templeton College, Oxford, Adjunct Lecturer at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University and at the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics
Post-school education: Emmanuel College, Cambridge 1962-1969
Degrees: B.A. (Cambridge) (1965)
M.A. (Cambridge) (1968)
Ph.D. (Cambridge) (1970) for a dissertation entitled: "Centrality and permutability in soluble groups"
D.Sc (Wales) (1993)
MA DPhil (Oxford) by Incorporation (2000)
MA (Bioethics) With Distinction, University of Surrey (2005)
MMath, University of Cambridge (2011).
Awards: 1962 State Exhibition (Northern Ireland)
1962 Langley Exhibition for Mathematics (Emmanuel College)
1966 Bachelor Scholarship at Emmanuel College for Distinction in
Tripos Part III
1967 Commendation for an Essay of Distinction in the Smith's and Rayleigh Prize Competition
1975 Award of Research Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to visit Wuerzburg University FRG
1978 Award of Senior von Humboldt Fellowship to visit Freiburg
1994 Award of Senior von Humboldt Fellowship to visit Wuerzburg
Membership: London Mathematical Society
Trinity Forum
Posts held:
Lecturer (1969), Senior Lecturer (1979),
Reader (1986) at the University of Wales, Cardiff (later University of Cardiff)
Research Fellow in Mathematics, Green College, Oxford (1997- 2003)
Visiting Fellow, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford (1999-2006)
Reader in Mathematics, University of Oxford
(2006-)
Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford
(2008-)
Member of Board of Judges for Oxford Strategic Leadership Prize (2009-)
Adjunct Lecturer, Wycliffe Hall (2010-)
Contributor to Oxford Strategic Leadership Programme, SBS 2007- Adjunct Professor Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics 2008-
College Responsibilities:
Finance and General Purposes Committee Member (2000-2004)
Advisor of Students (2000-)
Pastoral Advisor (2003-)
Governing Body Member (2003- )
Staff Committee Member (2004- )
Student Welfare Committee Member (2004- )
Nominations Committee 2011
Representative on various university appointments committees: Director of Refugee Studies, Lectureships in Computing, Simmons Fellowship in Physics.
Principal applicant for Small Grant for study on Risk and Decision Making in Science
Teaching
2000 - 01 Oxford University Subfaculty of Mathematics, Postgraduate course for Research Students in Algebra: “Philip Hall’s Theory of Infinite Soluble Groups”.
2001 - 03 Oxford University Subfaculty of Mathematics, Moderations Course in Algebra
2001 - 07 Oxford University Faculty of Medicine, Special Study Module, Science, Philosophy and Theology.
2004 - Oxford University Faculty of Theology, Science and Religion (for final Honours Theology and Philosophy)
2005 - Wycliffe Hall and OCCA Teaching – Science, Ethics, Religion
2007 - Said Business School, OSLP, OSBS
Tutoring in various Colleges on Science and Religion 2004-
Admissions Committee in Mathematics Queens College 2005,7
Major Visits abroad
October 1975 - July 1976
University of Wuerzburg FRG as Alexander Von Humboldt Fellow
October 1978 - July 1979
University of Freiburg FRG as Alexander Von Humboldt Fellow
August - September 1979
Visiting Professor, University of Edmonton Alberta, Canada
October 1981 - September 1982
Sabbatical at the Universities of Wuerzburg and Vienna
September 10 - 30 1983
University of Wuerzburg
November - December 1986
Visiting Professor at the University of Bar Ilan, Ramat Gan, Israel
April 17 -22 1988
University of Wuerzburg
November -December 1990
Royal Society sponsored visit to the Academy of Sciences of the USSR: Institute of Mathematics in Moscow, Minsk, Kiev, Novosibirsk and Dnepropetrovsk
April-May 1991 Royal Society sponsored visit to Siberian Branch of Academy of Sciences of USSR: Institutes of Mathematics in Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk and University of Novosibirsk
May 1992 University of Michigan at Kalamazoo
June - July 1992 Academy of Sciences visit to Moscow, Novosibirsk and Irkutsk
December 1994 - January 1995 Humboldt award to visit University of Wuerzburg