ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the idea of community as informed pneumatologically and theologically, and probes its metaphysical implications. The main features of the proposed foundational pneumatology include a triadically conceived relational, realistic, and social metaphysics. The mediational and normative aspect of foundational pneumatology touches upon theological and philosophical anthropology and psychology. The movement toward ontology and metaphysics, however, means that a process of translation and correlation needs to take place. Walter Wink's bipolar vision of reality, however, should be set within the broader framework of process metaphysics with which he explicitly acknowledges affinities. Within the process framework of Alfred North Whitehead, especially as developed by Charles Hartshorne, a similar bipolority is at work, albeit one that envisions a metaphysics of both transcendence and immanence. The relationality that emerges from the pneumatological reflections so far presumes both the independence and the interdependence of the terms related, albeit in various respects.
