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Church Times top ten religious books

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06 July 2012

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(Previous month's position in brackets)

1 Take The Plunge by Timothy Radcliffe (Bloomsbury, £10.99) (-)

2 Ordained Local Ministry in the Church of England, edited by Andrew Bowden, Leslie J. Francis, Elizabeth Jordan, and Oliver Simon (Continuum, £16.99) (-)

3 How God Became King by Tom Wright (SPCK, £12.99) (1)

4 Queen Elizabeth II and Her Church by John Hall (Bloomsbury, £12.99) (2)

5 Jesus: A short life by John Dickson (Lion, £6.99) (-)

6 A Practical Christianity by Jane Shaw (SPCK, £8.99) (-)

7 Making the Most of the Lectionary by Thomas O'Loughlin (SPCK, £12.99) (-)

8 The State of the Church and the Church of the State by Michael Turnbull and Donald McFadyen (DLT, £14.99) (10)

9 Ministry Without Madness by Gordon Oliver (SPCK, £9.99) (6)

10 Leaving Alexandria by Richard Holloway (Canongate, £17.99) (4)

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