Franke has associated himself with the missional church and Emerging church (EC) movements, having given talks and presentations at various EC conferences. His theology tends to be regarded as postmodern and postconservative. An emphasis of his work is to recognize that all who do theology bring their personal, ecclesial, and professional culture and perspectives to biblical interpretation and theologizing. Franke recognizes that it is unbiblical to believe that infallible, imperfect human beings can know either God or his written word fully and completely, as modernist thinking would, eventually, imply (indeed, require.) He strives to focus on Bible over tradition while addressing the contemporary postmodern culture which does not think foundationally, although he teaches and writes from