The Terrain of Neuroscience: Brain, Consciousness, and Identity (Part 1)
Angela Franks on access to reality.
Angela Franks
Angela Franks is Professor of Theology at St. John's Seminary in Boston and a Church Life Journal Life and Dignity Writing Fellow. Her latest book Body and Identity appears in 2025 with the University of Notre Dame Press.
Articles
Louis Althusser's Nonexistence
Angela Franks on the void.
John Paul II's Exploration of the Full Personhood of Women
Angela Franks on the human person.
God Was Above Vampire Weekend
Angela Franks on music.
New Aesthetic Vistas on the Metaphysics of Labor
Angela Franks on exercising labor.
In the Swarm: The Liturgy and Liquid Identity
Angela Franks on Bauman and Ratzinger.
Why Does Higher Ed Throw Women Under the Bus?
Angela Franks on what can be done about it.
Biopower's Scapegoating of the Female Body
Angela Franks on Foucault and bodies evading control.
What Secularization Did to the Self
Angela Franks on a secular age.
Mary’s Poverty, an Example of a Misogynistic Ecclesial Agenda?
Angela Franks on Mary as exemplar of the body's poverty.
Modernity's Feasting on Fluid Bodies and Empty Selves
Angela Franks on vampires, zombies, and identities.
The Body as a Formed Stream
Angela Franks on where mechanistic science and gender fluidity meet.
Consumerism and the Liquefaction of Desire
Angela Franks on the insatiability of post-modern desire.
The Fallout from the 20th Century Quarrel Over the Subject
Angela Franks on the death of man after the death of God.
The Body as Totem in the Asexual Revolution
Angela Franks on the meaning of the body.
The Plane Where Nietzsche and Jane Austen Meet
Angela Franks on surfaces and relationships.
The Blood of Dionysus or the Vineyard of the Lord?
Angela Franks on the will to power versus the logic of the cross.
The Feminine Mystique Revisited
Angela Franks revisits and updates the critique of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique.
John Paul II's Labor on Marx
Angela Franks, Professor of Theology at St. John's Seminary in Boston, demonstrates how the pope critiqued and developed Marx's theory of labor.
Self-Centeredness Isn't Narcissism's Central Problem
Angela Franks, Ph.D., professor of theology at Boston's St. John's Seminary, enlists C.S. Lewis to overturn commonplaces about narcissism.
Is There an Escape from the Evils of a Contracepting Society?
Angela Franks on Humane Vitae's pointers towards a culture that doesn't scapegoat fertility.
Humanae Vitae in Light of the War Against Female Fertility
Angela Franks, Theological Institute for the New Evangelization Professor, on Humanae Vitae's reception alongside the history of scapegoating female fertility.