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Top Ten christian books

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02 September 2016

Top Ten

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(previous month’s position in brackets)

  1. Being Disciples by Rowan Williams (SPCK, £8.99) (1)

  2. The Splash of Words by Mark Oakley (Canterbury Press, £12.99) (-)

  3. How Then Shall We Live? by Samuel Wells (Canterbury Press, £16.99) (2)

  4. That Was the Church That Was by Andrew Brown and Linda Woodhead (Bloomsbury, £16.99) (-)

  5. The Seeds of Heaven by Barbara Brown Taylor (Canterbury Press, £10.99) (-)

  6. Parable and Paradox by Malcolm Guite (Canterbury Press, £10.99) (3)

  7. The Body by Paula Gooder (SPCK, £9.99) (6)

  8. All Things Made New by Diarmaid MacCulloch (Allen Lane, £25) (-)

  9. God Is No Thing by Rupert Shortt (Hurst, £9.99) (10)

  10. A Little History of Religion by Richard Holloway (Yale, £14.99) (-)

 

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