Who is Present in Absence?: A Pentecostal Theological Praxis of Suffering and Healing

by Pamela F. Engelbert, Martin William Mittelstadt (Foreword by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781532633546
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	01/16/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	220
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Pamela F. Engelbert is an ordained pastoral theologian and an adjunct instructor for institutions overseas and stateside. She is skilled in compassionate communication, which she teaches to various groups.
Martin William Mittelstadt (PhD, Marquette University) is Professor of Biblical Studies at Evangel University in Springfield, MO. He is the author of Spirit and Suffering in Luke-Acts and Reading Luke-Acts in the Pentecostal Tradition.