Education:
PhD (cand. 2008), University of Oklahoma;
MA, Biola University, 2004;
BS, Southwestern Assemblies of God University, 2002.

Areas of Specialization: Philosophy of religion and metaphysics.

Franks joined the Tyndale philosophy faculty in the fall of 2008 from the University of Oklahoma, where he is completing his dissertation A Rational Problem of Evil. He is the recipient of numerous academic fellowships and awards and is a member of the American Philosophical Association, the Society of Christian Philosophers, the Evangelical Philosophical Society and the Society for Pentecostal Studies.