
Who Is Present in Absence?
A Pentecostal Theological PRAXIS of Suffering and Healing
Pamela F. Engelbert(Author)
Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published on 16. January 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
220 pages
978-1-5326-3353-9 (ISBN)
Description
What transpires when Classical Pentecostals pray for God to intervene within their suffering, but God does not? Traditionally, Classical Pentecostals center on encountering God as demonstrated through the relating of testimonies of their experiences with God. In seeking to contribute to a theology of suffering for Pentecostals, Pam Engelbert lifts up the stories of eight Classical Pentecostals to discover how they experienced God and others amidst their extended suffering even when God did not intervene as they had prayed. By valuing each story, this qualitative practical theology work embraces a Pentecostal hermeneutic of experience combined with Scripture, namely the Gospel of John. As a Pentecostal practical theological project it offers a praxis (theology of action) of suffering and healing during times when we experience the apparent absence of God. It invites the reader to enter into the space of the other's suffering by way of empathy, and thereby participate in God's act of ministry to humanity through God's expression of empathy in the very person of Jesus.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Eugene
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
326 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5326-3353-9 (9781532633539)
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Who is Present in Absence?
A Pentecostal Theological Praxis of Suffering and Healing
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Pamela F. Engelbert is a practical theologian and a grief support facilitator, as well as an author and researcher in the area of suffering and healing among pentecostals. She has served as a co-pastor and co-missionary with her husband, and she has taught online and seated classes on providing pastoral care from a pentecostal perspective in the United States and Asia, respectively. She is the author of Who Is Present in Absence? (2019).