Aaron Maccaughey:
CLASS OF 1999
Northland High SchoolClass of 1999
Columbus, OH
Aaron's Story
Aaron's schools include Northland High School.
Music Aaron likes includes J. Tillman, Confusion Ends, To Lose / To Gain. Books Aaron likes include The Old Man and the Sea, Maus by Art Spiegelman, Fahrenheit 451. Movies Aaron likes include The Pianist, "Yellow Roses" Film Project, Son of Rambow. TV shows Aaron likes include Portlandia, Planet Earth, Arrested Development.
One of Aaron's favorite quotes is:"â...the climate of skepticism, which for the last two hundred years has made it unfashionable and even embarrassing to suggest that Jesusâ resurrection really happened, was never and is not now a neutral thing, sociologically or politically. The intellectual coup dâetat by which the Enlightenment convinced so many that âwe now know that dead people donât rise,â as though this was a modern discovery rather than the reaffirmation of what Homer and Aeschylus had taken for granted, goes hand in hand with the Enlightenmentâs other proposals, not least that we have now come of age, that God can be kicked upstairs, that we can get on with running the world however we want to, carving it up to our advantage without any outside interference. To that extent, the totalitarianisms of the last century were simply among the varied manifestations of a larger totalitarianism of thought and culture against which postmodernity has now, and rightly in my view, rebelled. Who, after all, was it who didnât want the dead to be raised? Not simply the intellectually timid or the rationalists. It was, and is, those in power, the social and intelle...Expand for more
ctual tyrants and bullies; the Caesarâs who would be threatened by a Lord of the world who had defeated the tyrantâs last weapon, death itself; the Herods who would be horrified at the postmortem validation of the true King of the Jews. And this is the point where believing in the resurrection of Jesus suddenly ceases to be a matter of inquiring about an old event in the first century and becomes a matter of rediscovering hope in the twenty-first century. Hope is what you get when you suddenly realize that a different worldview is possible, and the unscrupulous do not after all have the last word. The same worldview shift that is demanded by the resurrection of Jesus is the shift that will enable us to transform the world.
Think of Oscar Wildeâs wonderful scene in his play Salome, when Herod hears reports that Jesus of Nazareth has been raising the dead. âI do not wish him to do that,â says Herod. âI forbid him to do that. I allow no man to raise the dead. This man must be found and told that I forbid him to raise the dead.â
There is the bluster of a tyrant who knows his power is threatened, and I hear the same tone of voice not just in the politicians who want to carve up the world to their advantage but also in the intellectual traditions that have gone along for the ride.
But Wildeâs next, haunting line is the real crunch, for us as for Herod: âWhere is this man?â demands Herod. He is in every place my lord,â replies the courtier, âbut it is hard to find him.ââ
âSurprised by Hope (pp.74-76)".
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