Top 10 Christian books

03 February 2017

Dethroning Mammon
by Justin Welby (Bloomsbury, £9.99) (1)
God With Us
by Rowan Williams (SPCK, £8.99) (-)
Let Me Go There
by Paula Gooder (Canterbury Press, £8.99) (-)
The Way of Christ-likeness
by Michael Perham (Canterbury Press, £12.99)
Hanging by a Thread
by Samuel Wells (Canterbury Press, £8.99) (-)
The Things He Did
by Stephen Cottrell (SPCK, £7.99) (-)
Being Disciples
by Rowan Williams (SPCK, £8.99) (2)
The Divine Dance
by Richard Rohr (SPCK, £9.99) (5)
Glimpses of Glory
by David Bryant (Bloomsbury, £9.99) (-)
The Splash of Words
by Mark Oakley (Canterbury Press, £12.99) (6)

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