CHRISTOPHER A. FRANKS
816 Parliament St.
High Point, NC 27265
Home Tel: 336-887-8996
Office Tel: 336-841-4501
Email: cfranks@highpoint.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Duke University, 2004
Dissertation: “‘He Became Poor’: Poverty, Economy, and Nature in Aquinas’s Ethics”
Advisor: Stanley Hauerwas
Graduate Certificate, Catholic University of America, Program in Medieval and Byzantine
Studies, 1999
M.Div., Duke University, magna cum laude, 1996
B.A., Indiana University, summa cum laude, 1992
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor of Religion, High Point University, 2004-present
Instructor of Religion and Philosophy, High Point University, 2003-2004
Graduate Instructor, Duke University, Fall 2002
Teaching Assistant, Duke University Divinity School, 1999-2003
COURSES TAUGHT
New Testament Studies; Jesus in the Gospels; Paul and His Letters; Faith, Ethics, and
Wholeness; Social Ethics; Research and Writing in Religion and Philosophy; Christian Ethics;
Religion in America; Modern Christian Thought; Globalization and Christianity
BOOKS
‘He Became Poor’: The Poverty of Christ and Aquinas’s Economic Teachings. Ekklesia Project
Academic Series. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, forthcoming.
ARTICLES
“The Usury Prohibition and Natural Law: A Reappraisal,” The Thomist (under review)
“The Simplicity of the Living God: Aquinas, Barth, and Some Philosophers,” Modern Theology
21 (2005) 275-300
“Passion and the Will to Believe,” Journal of Religion 84 (2004) 431-449
BOOK REVIEWS
Servais Pinckaers, The Pinckaers Reader: Renewing Thomistic Moral Theology, ed. John
Berkman and Craig Steven Titus. Nova et Vetera (forthcoming)
NATIONAL CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Thomas’s Economics and the Redundancy of Natural Law,” Society of Christian Ethics, 2004
NON-PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
“Why Stewardship Is a Bad Idea,” The Christian Century (under review)
INVITED TALKS
“Communion as Hospitality,” at Welcoming God and Other Strangers, a conference at