Franks, W. Paul

 

Dr. W. Paul Franks is Vice President Academic and Dean of Undergraduate Studies. He is also Associate Professor of Philosophy.

PhD, University of Oklahoma, 2012.

MA, Biola University, 2004.

BS, Southwestern Assemblies of God University, 2002.

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Recent Submissions

  • Explaining Evil: Four Views 

    Franks, W. Paul (Editor); Tyndale University; Department of Philosophy; Tyndale University, J. William Horsey Library, 3377 Bayview Ave., Toronto, ON, M2M 3S4, Canada. Contact: repository@tyndale.ca (Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing PlcLondon, UK ; New York, 2019)

  • Against a Postmodern Pentecostal Epistemology 

    Davis, Richard Brian, 1963-; Franks, W. Paul (Evangelical Philosophical SocietyCharlottesville, VA, 2013)
    In this paper we explore the idea that pentecostalism is best supported by conjoining it to a postmodern, narrative epistemology in which everything is a text requiring interpretation. On this view, truth doesn’t consist ...

  • Original Sin and a Broad Free Will Defense 

    Franks, W. Paul (Evangelical Philosophical SocietyCharlottesville, VA, 2012)
    I begin with a distinction between narrow and broad defenses to the logical problem of evil. The former is simply an attempt to show that God and evil are not logically incompatible whereas the latter attempts the same, ...

  • On Jesus, Derrida, and Dawkins: Rejoinder to Joshua Harris 

    Davis, Richard Brian, 1963-; Franks, W. Paul (Evangelical Philosophical SocietyCharlottesville, VA, 2014)
    In this paper we respond to three objections raised by Joshua Harris to our article, “Against a Postmodern Pentecostal Epistemology,” in which we express misgivings about the conjunction of Pentecostalism with James K. A. ...

  • Why a Believer Could Believe That God Answers Prayers 

    Franks, W. Paul (SpringerNew York, 2009-08)
    In a previous issue of this journal Michael Veber argued that God could not answer certain prayers because doing so would be immoral. In this article I attempt to demonstrate that Veber’s argument is simply the logical ...

  • What Place, Then, for Rational Apologetics? 

    Davis, Richard Brian, 1963-; Franks, W. Paul (Moody PublishingChicago, IL, 2014)

  • Counterpossibles and the ‘Terrible’ Divine Command Deity 

    Davis, Richard Brian, 1963-; Franks, W. Paul (Cambridge University PressCambridge, UK, 2015)
    In a series of articles in this journal, Wes Morriston has launched what can only be considered a full-scale assault on the divine command theory (DCT) of morality. According to Morriston, proponents of this theory are ...