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PRS Logo Paul R. Smith
Teacher of the Jesus Path to Awakening



The following are the list of books that Paul Smith has published that are available for purchase. Check back later as more details are revealed about his new book and how you may obtain a copy for your personal enjoyment.



     

Integral Christianity: The Spirit’s Call to Evolve!

     
  Paul’s new book, Integral Christianity: The Spirit’s Call to Evolve is now available. The books (hardback, 400 pages) are available from Amazon. Order your copy today by clicking on the Buy Now button below.  
 

 

 
 

THE EVOLUTION OF ALL RELIGIONS into deeper, wider, and higher dimensions is crucial to the evolution of human spirituality and consciousness. In this book Smith presents just such an inviting and expansive pathway for the Christian religion that is faithful to a Jesus-centered theology of biblical interpretation and illuminated by the emerging field of integral philosophy.

The perspectives of integral theory and practice articulated by Ken Wilber help uncover the integral approach that Jesus advocated and demonstrated in the metaphors of his time – and that traditional Christianity has largely been unable to see.

Smith incorporates elements of traditional, modern, and postmodern theological viewpoints, including progressive, New Thought, and emerging/emergent ones. However, he goes beyond all of them and moves to a Christianity that is devoted to following both the historical Jesus and the Risen Cosmic Christ whose Spirit beckons to us from the future.

He says, “The oldest thing you can say about God is that God is always doing something new. Jesus pushed his own religion to newness by including the best of its past, and transcending the worst of its present. He calls us to do the same, whatever our religion is today. Jesus continues to be a prototype for all spiritual paths in their task of keeping up with the Spirit’s evolutionary impulse to welcome the next transcendent stage.”

 

Leading Change and Causing Trouble

Click on the "Download" button below to access “Leading Change and Causing Trouble,” an additional chapter to this book that the editors cut out.


 
 

Advance praise for Integral Christianity: The Spirit’s Call to Evolve!


“A lot of us were introduced to a take-it--or-leave-it approach to Christian faith: it was a tight, stiff, one-size-fits-all system that offered little room to grow. Many of us are now discovering that there's another approach ... an expansive, adaptive approach that sees growth and development as inherent to faithfulness, for both individuals and traditions. In Integral Christianity, Paul Smith offers a helpful, readable, and inviting portal into this alternate approach.”

Brian McLaren

(Listed as one of America's 25 most influential evangelicals by TIME magazine, featured on Larry King Live, Nightline, in Christianity Today, Christian Century, The Washington Post, and author of 21 books including A New Kind of Christianity. brianmclaren.net)

 
 

“Clarifying, honest, courageous, and genuinely helpful, while neither denying nor accommodating any essential Gospel--but in fact, making it shine with a new brilliance and beauty! All sincere believers and seekers should welcome this book.”

[Fr.] Richard Rohr,
O.F.M. Center for Action and Contemplation, Albuquerque, New Mexico

(Richard Rohr is a Franciscan priest, international speaker, founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation author of twenty-five books, including Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality and Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer.)

“Reverend Paul Smith has written an impassioned book that helps chart a future course of development for the Christian church. His extensive experience as a spiritual teacher and minister shines through as he shows how the integral philosophy of evolution can illuminate our quest to find God. It is good to see a devoted follower of Jesus engage the Christian message from an integral perspective. Integral Christianity: The Spirit’s Call to Evolve! provides an accessible overview of integral philosophy that will be useful to Christians of all denominations.“

Steve McIntosh,
author of Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution

(Steve McIntosh is a major spokesperson for integral philosophy.)

 
 

“I’m not where he is, but if you are like me, and appreciate well reasoned and passionate arguments on cutting edge mystical spirituality that needs consideration, you will say “thank you” to Paul Smith, even if you don’t agree with him.”

Tony Campolo,
PhD. Eastern University

(Tony Campolo is an evangelical, social activist, professor emeritus at Eastern University, nationally known speaker, and author of thirty-five books, including Red Letter Christians: A Christian’s Guide to Faith and Politics and Following Jesus without Embarrassing God.)

“Integral Christianity: The Spirit’s Call to Evolve! is a wonderful guide for Christians seeking a personal and world-transforming spirituality.”

Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer

(Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer teaches justice and peace studies at University of St. Thomas in St. Paul and is the author of twelve books, including Jesus Against Christianity: Reclaiming the Missing Jesus and Saving Christianity from Empire.)

 
 

“I want to thank Paul Smith for his monumental accomplishment. So far as I am aware, this is the first attempt to systematically apply Wilber's integral paradigm to Christian faith and practice. It works not only because he understands Wilber very well, but because he knows Christianity like the back of his hand. It's doubly credible because he writes not from the standpoint of an academic theologian (matching one set of jargon with another), but as a committed Christian pastor who has tested every one of these principles in actual parish ministry and demonstrated the viability of Integral church. And it's triply credible because of the joy and luminosity of his being as it shines through on every page of this text. He indeed models the hope that he lays out here.”

Rev. Dr. Cynthia Bourgeault

(Episcopal priest, PhD and internationally known retreat leader, Cynthia Bourgeault is the author of six books including The Wisdom Jesus.)

"Paul Smith’s Integral Christianity - The Spirit’s Call to Evolve! is an impressive blend of thorough scholarship and prophetic call to reformation. The integral church clearly delineated here recovers mystical spirituality often missing in modern and post-modern churches. This outstanding book makes a strong case, based on the teachings of Jesus, that everyone is Divine. Paul Smith uses a variety of feminine, masculine, and non-gender Divine images to support this biblical truth. He honestly discusses the challenges and risks of leading change in the church along with the rewards of “transformation in ever more inclusive love.”

Rev. Dr. Jann Aldredge-Clanton

(Baptist pastor and conference leader, author of nine books including In Search of the Christ-Sophia: An Inclusive Christology for Liberating Christians and Inclusive Hymns for Liberating Christians.)

 
 

"Paul Smith gives us a fine book on integral Christianity. It speaks directly to Christians as well as other religious persons everywhere. Highly recommended."

Allan Combs

(Professor Combs is a consciousness researcher, neuropsychologist, systems theorist, author of The Radiance of Being, Dreamer of the Earth, and The Relevance of Thomas Berry, holder of various graduate teaching appointments, and member of Club of Budapest.)

"From the Forward: “Integral Christianity: The Spirit’s Call to Evolve! is an important book and a profound one . . . a work of serious scholarship, and though written in ordinary everyday language, it is a work in which the revelation of the Holy Spirit for our times shines through. It sets forth the developmental framework by which Christians grow inwardly in their understanding of Jesus and his teachings. It does this in a more complete and integral way than any other Christian book so far written. I urge every reader to drink deeply of the wisdom contained in this magnificent book, the product of a lifetime of love, service, and prayer in imitation of Jesus, the light of the world.”

Jim Marion

(Contemporary Christian mystic and the author of Putting on the Mind of Christ and The Death of the Mythic God.)

 
     
     


 
     

       
 

Is It Okay To Call God "Mother"? (Book)

 
       
  With tender power and wit, Paul Smith challenges the church to biblical fidelity and justice in its worship language....This outstanding book so clearly and convincingly demonstrates the biblical imperative for inclusive God-language that the Christian community can no longer ignore it.

-- Jann Aldredge-Clanton, Ph.D.
   Chaplain, Baylor University Medical Center
 
       
     
       

       
 

Hell? No! (Booklet)

 
       
  Did you know that Jesus taught more about hell than anyone else in the Bible? Did you know that he never once connected hell with whether one was a Christian or not? Did you know there are over thirty passages in the New Testament about God’s promise to save everyone?

Subtitled “
A Bible study on why no one will be left behind,” this 36-page booklet briefly makes the biblical case for the ultimate reconciliation through Christ of every person, without exception.
 
       
     
       

       
 

The Bible and Homosexuality (Booklet)

 
       
  Subtitled “Affirming all sexual orientations as gifts from God,” this is one of my most popular brochures. Thousands around the country, including pastors' groups, have used this as a basic primer on the Bible and homosexuality. The 39-pages deal concisely and directly with all the passages and arguments that are used in the current debate. It also points to other passages which can be understood as affirming all sexual orientations.  
       
     
       

       
 

How To Make The Bible Your Friend (Booklet)

 
       
  The Bible is not a friend to many – it feels like an enemy. And it is simply ignored by others. Yet the Bible is an indispensable resource in the Christian life. In this 40-page booklet, the Bible is discerned through the lens of Jesus Christ in a different way so it can be more helpful in your spiritual journey. It also includes a brief commentary on every book in the Bible.  
       
     
       

 

 

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