ABSTRACT
This chapter provides the basic features of foundational pneumatology are best explicated along the lines of a robust trinitarianism. Pneumatology thus provides the interpretive key which mediates between self and otherness even while preserving the distinctness of self and otherness in the relationship. It is the relational constitutedness of minds, other minds, and the world. The Spirit as rationality overflows from the divine life to the divine creation in a dynamic process that can only be fully comprehended communally and eschatologically. The mediational and normative aspect of foundational pneumatology touches upon theological and philosophical anthropology and psychology. Community is both a pneumatological and trinitarian concept. The chapter aims to replicate John D. Zizioulas' strategy, but apply the trinitarian ontology of personhood to the social and relational constitutedness of lived experience more specifically. The significance of the pneumatological categories for theology can be assessed variously.
