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"The Songs of the Mothers is a powerful restatement of the church's mission in terms of the biblical witness of two women, two mothers. The songs they sang (1 Samuel 2:1-10a and Luke 1:46-55), so similar and yet so different, provide the background for this author's fresh and challenging evaluation of classical theological material. Joe Doss writes from a radical (but not secular) viewpoint, and from this stance he offers a new vision of the church's future that is firmly based in scriptural and catholic orthodoxy. He calls us to move beyond the competitive individualism that is still the legacy of the late Middle Ages and the Enlightenment and to recover a corporate understanding of reality that even has traces of sacramentalism and transcendence. Here he shows us deeper Christian dimensions of such themes as justice, mission, ministry, and community. The Songs of the Mothers speaks to a church that is always dying and always in the process of reformation and rebirth."
—J. Robert Wright, D.Phil., St. Mark's Professor of Ecclesiastical History, General Theological Seminary