Is there any meaning and purpose to being male and female, or to sexuality as a whole?
Are women rational and free people? What did John Paul II say?
A review in Nova et Vetera 2021, a book from CUA Press.
Deleuze on Nietzsche and the Christian alternative: Is being the blood of Dionysus or the vineyard of the Lord?
Excerpted from my chapter, “A Body of Work: Labor and Culture in Karol Wojtyła,” in Leisure and Labor, ed. Anthony Coleman (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefield, 2019), 127-140.
“The Analogous and Subsisting Person: An Exercise in Theological Anthropology”
was published by The International Journal of Systematic Theology in July 2025. You can download the paper here: https://cua.academia.edu/AngelaFranks
“Identity and the Trinitarian Imago”
was published by Nova et Vetera in Spring 2025. You can download the paper here: https://cua.academia.edu/AngelaFranks
“Grasping the Form: A Proposal for Contemplative and Synthetic Systematic Theology”
was published in the inaugural issue of The New Ressourcement in Spring 2024. You can download the paper here: https://cua.academia.edu/AngelaFranks
“Christ as the Way of Synodality”
was published by The Thomist in Winter 2023. You can download the paper here: https://doi.org/10.1353/tho.2023.0012
“Mary as Exemplar of the Body’s Poverty”
was published by Nova et Vetera in Winter 2022. You can download the paper here: https://cua.academia.edu/AngelaFranks
“Thomistic-Balthasarian Comments on Thomas Joseph White, OP, The Incarnate Lord”
was published by Nova et Vetera in Spring 2022. You can download the paper here: https://cua.academia.edu/AngelaFranks
“Deleuze, Balthasar, and John Paul II on the Aesthetics of the Body”
was published by Theological Studies in December 2020. You can download the paper here: https://cua.academia.edu/AngelaFranks
“A Wojtyłian Reading of Performativity and the Self in Judith Butler”
was published by Christian Bioethics: Non-Ecumenical Studies in Medical Morality in fall 2020. You can access the article on the Oxford University Press website here.
“Fluidity: Man, the Triune God, and the Eucharistic Christ”
was published by Communio in Fall/Winter 2019. You can download the paper here: https://cua.academia.edu/AngelaFranks
“End-less and Self-Referential Desire”
was published by The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly in Winter 2018. You can download the paper here:
https://cua.academia.edu/AngelaFranks
"The Body, Alienation, and Gift in Marx and Wojtyła"
was published in Pensando il Lavoro, Atti del Convegno “The Heart of Work” Pontificia Università della Santa Croce. Roma, 19-20 Ottobre 2017. You can download the paper here: https://cua.academia.edu/AngelaFranks
"Thinking the Body with Karol Wojtyła"
was published by Nova et Vetera (American edition) in January 2018. You can download the paper here: https://cua.academia.edu/AngelaFranks
"Trinitarian Analogia Entis in Hans Urs von Balthasar"
was published by The Thomist in 1998. You can download the paper here: https://cua.academia.edu/AngelaFranks