Where is God in a world left grief-stricken and terrified by coronavirus? Professor John Lennox believes that he has the answer

Professor John Lennox, from Armagh, has had a stellar career, but as a student was told to give up his Christianity to be successful. He tells Laurence White about his own recent brush with mortality and why his faith is unshakeable

Professor John Lennox has written a new book focusing on God and the current pandemic

By Laurence White

Armagh man John Lennox, then a young man studying at Cambridge University, could scarcely believe his ears. There he stood in the study of a Nobel Prize winning scientist and a couple of other senior academics and he was being told to give up his faith.

Professor Lennox, now 76, a professor of mathematics at Oxford University, recounted this extraordinary conversation in Can Science Explain Everything, one of the several books he has written about what he calls the interface between science, theology and philosophy.