While completing his PhD at Westminster, Dr. Franze was also an Adjunct Professor of NT. His dissertation, “The Grace of Reward: A Study in Pauline Charitology,” argues that Paul configures eschatological reward, promised to Israel in the Old Testament Scriptures, as a feature of God’s
undeserved grace to believers in union with Christ. In addition to Paul’s theology of grace and Pauline soteriology, Dr. Franze’s academic interests include the application of linguistics for biblical exegesis (see his article on metaphor theory), the Second-Temple Jewish context for the NT’s
eschatology and the NT’s use of the OT, and the soteriology of the Apostolic Fathers. Dr. Franze is a member of ETS and SBL. He is ordained in the PCA and his family attends Christ the King Presbyterian Church (Conshohocken, PA).
EDUCATION
PhD in NT, Westminster Theological Seminary, 2025
MDiv, Westminster Theological Seminary, 2021
BA in Biblical Studies and Philosophy, University of Northwestern—St. Paul, 2016
COURSES
Greek 1 (NT 001)
Greek 2 (NT 002)
Greek 3 (NT 003)
NT Interpretation: Acts & the Pauline Epistles (NT 223)
Readings in Second Temple Judaism (NT 791)
Readings in New Testament Introduction and Theology (NT 921)