ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses and assesses the impact of Moltmann's pneumatology on the current theological description of an eschatological understanding of Christian moral action. It was argued that the primary means of connection between an ethic of hope and pneumatology was through an understanding of the Spirit's person and work as it is related to Jesus Christ and God's Kingdom. Moltmann differentiates his view of the Holy Spirit from other theologies on two primary issues. First, Moltmann eschews the tendencies of German idealism to convey the Holy Spirit in terms of the human spirit or the spirit' of history. The second issue which distinguishes Moltmann's pneumatology is the Trinitarian emphasis he maintains, thus clearly specifying the Spirit's personhood. The Trinitarian history of God's dealings with the world is not a historicizing of God, but rather a theologizing of history. This history occurs through the soteriological events of Christ's cross and resurrection via the divine promise.
