In his first full-length book Justin Welby looks at the subject of money & materialism Designed for study in the weeks of Lent leading up to Easter Dethroning Mammon reflects on the impact of our own attitudes & of the pressures that surround us on how we handle the power of money called Mammon in this book Who will be on the throne of our lives? Who will direct our actions & attitudes? Is it Jesus Christ who brings truth hope & freedom? Or is it Mammon so attractive so clear but leading us into paths that tangle trip & deceive? Archbishop Justin explores the tensions that arise in a society dominated by Mammon's modern aliases economics & finance & by the pressures of our culture to conform to Mammon's expectations Following the Gospels towards Easter this book asks the reader what it means to dethrone Mammon in the values & priorities of our civilisation & in our own existence In Dethroning Mammon Archbishop Justin challenges us to use Lent as a time of learning to trust in the abundance & grace of God