Phillip Jensen gives his opinion here. I will say straight off the bat that I am not certain that I agree with some of his conclusions (or presuppositions) in this piece – but it gets the ol’ juices flowing at least!
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One Comment
Stephen
The entire thesis is wrapped up with the OT assembly being the (only) interpretive key for “ekklessia” in the NT. Very reductionistic. What would help more than just doing a random word study and finding an OT corollary would be to see how “ekklessia” is used by the apostles and writers of the NT. While the word is a fairly ordinary, mundane word used for gatherings it seems clear to me that the NT writers vest this plain word with a whole lot of new significance. Any failure to track with that will leave you with a very reductionistic ecclesiology. Alas, I have this conversation often with my Sydney-influenced friends without much progress ever being made.
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