Check out these great averaged "photos" from flickr. The creator wrote code that grabbed 50 different photos tagged with in this case the Eiffel Tower.
This got me thinking about interpretation and religious tradition. I am currently reading Grenz's book, Beyond Foundationalism and find that much of the book resonantes with me.
Maybe this series of photos is an illustration of what happens with reading and hermenuetics. Each person "sees" the truth in the text but when compared to what others "see" we find that the images can be very different. Yet, the original concept is still there.
I'm just playing around with this idea but for some reason this concept is resonating with me today.
Perhaps the "truth" does lie there somewhere within the readings and interpretations however varied they may be just as the true image of the Eiffel Tower is in this rendering.
Blogs give us an opportunity to do this; in a sense "50 people see...God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, truth, culture, whatever.
Yet the "norming norm" is still there. In this picture the norming norm is the Eiffel Tower. In interpretation the norming norm is the Holy Spirit speaking to us through the biblical text.
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