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.
Instead of a rational engagement with an intelligible—that is, already formed—material world, there arises the technological imposition of form upon the passive surface of the body.
Female protagonists today are much more likely to be sexually-experienced and wisecracking career women. Instead of June Cleaver, we have Captain Marvel. Despite this cultural distance, though, many of Friedan’s observations still resonate today.
“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://sjs.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://sjs.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://sjs.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 corrected manuscript here: https://sjs.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://sjs.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://sjs.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://sjs.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://sjs.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://sjs.academia.edu/AngelaFranks