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In this volume Ben Cooper analyses how commitment to God is
described within the Gospel of Matthew, how this is related to
becoming a disciple of Jesus, and how reading or hearing the Gospel
works to evoke such a response. The analysis draws upon a variety
of approaches in linguistics and literary studies in a new way to
characterise the 'communicative equilibrium' between the author and
the subset of readers who process the text compliantly. Cooper
argues that Matthew's Gospel evokes in its compliant readers a
particular kind of theocentric commitment, which he calls
'incorporated Servanthood'. Such readers become persuaded that
Jesus came to bring forgiveness of sins to the people of God and
then to take this salvation out to the nations, a program that can
be associated with Isaiah's Servant of the Lord. Compliant readers
are humbled so they can be served by the Servant for the
forgiveness of their sins. They are then incorporated into his
program for the nations, to join in the task of incorporating
others.
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