“In the Beginning was a Crime”: Power and Politics in Arendt, Foucault, and the Apocalypse 

J. David Franks received his Ph.D. in systematic theology from Boston College, and was professor of sacred theology for almost a decade at St. John’s Seminary, where he co-founded the Theological Institute for the New Evangelization and its Catechetical Certificate program. An activist as well as an intellectual, David serves as Chairman of the Board for Massachusetts Citizens for Life, founding and directing its Lincoln Forum for Human Dignity, which advances a liberal-arts and high-culture approach to reigniting civic conversation. David is a doting and devoted father of six children.