Papers by Kimberly Oppizzi
Junior Thesis at Covenant College
This paper will seek to prove that the affirmation of Christ’s eternal sonship is essential to or... more This paper will seek to prove that the affirmation of Christ’s eternal sonship is essential to orthodoxy.
This paper will seek to establish that the Puritans correctly understood both the gravity of man’... more This paper will seek to establish that the Puritans correctly understood both the gravity of man’s sin and the magnificence of Christ’s atonement for it. This is made evident by exploring and evaluating the Puritan views of the sinfulness of sin and Christ’s atonement for it. Due to spatial limitations, various excerpts from the works of John Owen, Thomas Goodwin, Nathanael Vincent, John Flavel, Charles Manton, Thomas Watson, and Edward Reynolds will function to represent the entire corpus of Puritan writings.
Hell is a place where, after death, the souls of unrepentant sinners are eternally tormented by t... more Hell is a place where, after death, the souls of unrepentant sinners are eternally tormented by the unmediated presence of God, manifested in his wrath. This claim is confirmed through (i) an exegetical study of the words used to indicate “hell” in the Bible, (ii) a biblical-theological overview of the presence of God manifest in either blessing or cursing throughout the Scriptures, and (iii) a consideration of matters componential to a proper systematic theology of hell.
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Papers by Kimberly Oppizzi