ABSTRACT
This chapter provides some justification for understanding the pneumatological imagination's truthful engagement with reality. It focuses on the semiotic aspects of Charles Sanders Peirce's thought and attempts to show how it underwrites a pneumatological account of the epistemic process. The chapter also provides an account of epistemic fallibility. It focuses on a triad of correlations: that between the pragmatism, realism, and communitarian character of Peirce's epistemology with the empowered activity, the integrativeness, and the normativeness of the pneumatological imagination. The chapter aims to experience these correlations as mutually illuminating, and provide, in rough form, the primordial shape of the hermeneutical trialectic of Spirit, Word and Community. As pneumatically inspired, all emergent notions—in Peirce's terms, hypotheses—have to be judged by selves-in-community. The pneumatological imagination provides just such an aspect in its goal of transforming the knower into the image of Jesus by the power of the Spirit.
