ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the history of humanistic, philosophical, and religious reflection on the imagination. It aims to develop the idea of the pneumatological imagination as an epistemological theory that proceeds from specifically thematized constructs of experiences of the Spirit. The chapter argues that dialectically and trialectically that the imagination is "pneumatological" in terms of its being illuminated by the categories drawn from the experience of the Spirit as well as further illuminating those same categories in turn. It discusses a project in theological hermeneutics and method, the explicit relationship between the imagination in general—and the pneumatological imagination more specifically—and theological thinking. Imagination correlates cosmologically with the way things are, thereby enabling normative human engagement with the world. The chapter outlines how the activity of worldmaking exhibits the functionality of the fundamental features of the pneumatological imagination, and connects that with the foundational pneumatology.
