Paul Franks, Ph.D.

Tyndale Seminary, Associate Professor of Philosophy

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Credentials

  • Ph.D. University of Oklahoma, 2012
  • M.A, Biola University, 2004
  • B.S, Southwestern Assemblies of God University, 2002

About Paul Franks

Dr. Franks joined the Tyndale Philosophy faculty in 2008 from the University of Oklahoma, where he completed his dissertation A Rational Problem of Evil: The Coherence of Christian Doctrine with a Broad Free Will Defense. He has published articles in Heythrop Journal, Philosophia Christi, Religious Studies and Sophia. He is also the recipient of numerous academic fellowships and awards and is a member of the Society of Christian Philosophers, the Evangelical Philosophical Society and the Society for Pentecostal Studies.

Publications

  • Layman’s Lapse: On An Incomplete Moral Argument for Theism
  • On Jesus, Derrida, and Dawkins: Rejoinder to Joshua Harris
  • Counterpossibles and the ‘Terrible’ Divine Command Deity
  • Counterpossibles and the ‘Terrible’ Divine Command Deity
  • Counterpossibles and the ‘Terrible’ Divine Command Deity
  • What Place, then, for Rational Apologetics?
  • Against a Postmodern Pentecostal Epistemology
  • Divine Freedom and the Free Will Defense
  • Original Sin and a Broad Free Will Defense
  • Why a Believer Could Believe that God Answers Prayers