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BOOKS or ARTICLES IN EDITED BOOKS:

  • Engelbert, Pamela F. See My Body, See Me: A Pentecostal Perspective on Healing from Sexual Violence. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2024.

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ABOUT: Hashtags such as #MeToo, #ChurchToo, and #pentecostalsisterstoo have exposed in recent years a type of epidemic of sexual violence in Western culture and the church. In light of these revelations, many have admitted (including clergy) to their lack of training to provide support for survivors of sexual violence. See My Body, See Me is a pentecostal response to these concerns by highlighting the characteristics of the healing journey from sexual violence and by underscoring specific acts of ministry for the church. As a qualitative work, See My Body, See Me draws from the experiences of eight pentecostal survivors and five licensed pentecostal counselors and combines them with Scripture (1 Corinthians), theology, culture, and psychology. This practical theological volume is divided into two parts with the first section describing four qualities of the healing journey of pentecostal survivors and the second offering three, historically pentecostal, healing praxes. It may be classified as being genuinely pentecostal in that it contains throughout the threads of story, body, and healing. See My Body, See Me is an invitation for pentecostals to participate in Christ’s healing ministry to see, hear, and believe survivors as God sees, hears, and believes them.

  • Engelbert, Pamela F. “A Linking Object’s Presence in Absence: A Praxis for Mourning from Luke-Acts.” In Receiving Scripture in the Pentecostal Tradition: A Reception History. Edited by Martin Mittelstadt, Daniel Isgrigg, and Rick Wadholm Jr., 148-176. Cleveland, TN: CPT Press, 2021.

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ABOUT “A LINKING OBJECT’S PRESENCE IN ABSENCE”: This article endeavors to contribute to the pentecostal response to mourners in which one is not only present to the mourner but also upholds a genuine pentecostal understanding of Spirit-Christology; I do so by drawing from the Lukan theme of presence-absence and connecting it with grief theory’s linking (or transitional) objects.

ABOUT THE ENTIRE BOOK: As a relatively new methodology, reception history continues to gain traction in biblical, theological, and philosophical studies. Receiving Scripture in the Pentecostal Tradition furthers the conversation with groundbreaking analysis of how the Pentecostal tradition read, interpreted, viewed, and performed Scripture. Included in this volume are twelve essays by global scholars who bring their methodological, biblical, and theological expertise to Pentecostal readings of Scripture. Each contributor documents not only how Pentecostals received the Scriptures, but also provide insights and analysis for these interpretations in their respective communities. This volume will serve as an excellent foundation for students and seasoned scholars interested in better understanding Pentecostal reception with all of its theological and hermeneutical implications. Daniel D. Isgrigg (PhD, Bangor University, UK) is Assistant Professor and Director of the Holy Spirit Research Center and Archives, Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, OK, USA. Martin W. Mittelstadt (PhD, Marquette University) is Professor of New Testament at Evangel University, Springfield, MO, USA. Rick Wadholm, Jr (PhD, Bangor University, UK) is an independent scholar based in Ellendale, ND, USA.

  • Engelbert, Pamela F. Who Is Present in Absence? A Pentecostal Theological Praxis of Suffering and Healing. Eugene: Pickwick, 2019.

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ABOUT: What transpires when Classical Pentecostals pray for God to intervene amidst 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, specifically 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, thereby participating in God’s act of ministry to humanity through God’s expression of empathy in the very person of Jesus.

An interview about the book:

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ARTICLES

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  • Engelbert, Pamela F. “See My Body, See Me—A Pentecostal perspective on healing after harm.” Testimony and Enrich Vol. 106, no. 3 (Summer 2025).

ABOUT: I offer hope for victims of sexual abuse and violence in this article published in a magazine by the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada (PAOC). I highlight how the use of Scripture, theology, psychology, and culture provides a Pentecostal perspective while on a path to healing.

  • Engelbert, Pamela F. (2021) “How Jesus Communicates #Metoo: A Perspective on Intergenerational Trauma and Healing in the Atonement,” Spiritus: ORU Journal of Theology: Vol. 6 : No. 2 , Article 6.

Available at: https://digitalshowcase.oru.edu/spiritus/vol6/iss2/6

ABOUT: This article offers a practical theological praxis of how the church may participate in Christ’s atoning ministry of healing towards persons who have experienced sexual violence. Drawing from the theory of intergenerational trauma, it uses the mentioning of “the wife of Uriah” in Matthew’s genealogy to convey how Jesus identifies with survivors of sexual violence. The article then focuses on the hypostatic union to establish how Jesus provides ontological healing in the atonement for said survivors. It concludes by demonstrating how Matthew’s Gospel calls radical disciples to a healing praxis of listening to stories of the disenfranchised, thereby pointing towards Christ’s atoning work of bearing and healing humanity’s weaknesses.

PODCASTS

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BOOK REVIEWS

  • Reviewer Engelbert, Pamela F. Review of Hope for the Oppressor: Discovering Freedom through Transformative, by Patrick Oden (Lanham: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2019). In Pneuma 43 (2021): 147-149.
  • Reviewer Engelbert, Pamela F. Review of When I Spoke in Tongues: A Story of Faith and Its Loss, by Jessica Wilbanks (Boston: Beacon Press, 2018). In Pneuma 41 (2019): 552-554. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/15700747-04103011.

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