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Vitullo-Martin, Julia
fers a masterful and historically accurate depiction of Gnosticism based on manuscripts discovered accidentally by an Egyptian farmer at Nag Hammadi in 1945. These texts, as Pagels points out, show...
...Before 9/11, this kind of book would have traumatized readers on environmental grounds alone—and not just the horrific spills like that of Exxon's Valdez, but the daily, relentless pollution that comes from aging, badly maintained ships flying under indifferent flags of convenience...
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...Under the spartina," Casey writes, "there was black earth richer than any farmland, but useless to farmers on ac-count of the salt...
...a story about an angry man, the boat he's building, and his voyage to self-discovery and redemption...
...Today's reader will think immediately of terrorism...
...But, as Friedrich Schleiermacher said, it must open its windows to the world, lest it become irrelevant or even harmful...
...Ultimately, most novels about the sea center on human rage and folly, followed by redemption sought and sometimes won...
...The novel closes with the main character walking off the ship for a better life in America—an old ending that would be forestalled today by Homeland Security officials...
...If even wealthy New York City can-not conquer its rivers, one might well ask how individual nations, some impoverished, can control the seas that surround them...
...William Langewiesche, in his riveting The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos and Crime (North Point, $23, 239 pp...
...Only the spartinas thrived in the salt flood, shut themselves against the salt but drank the water...
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...This seems much different to me than the experience of the men and women who grappled deeply with the issue of accepting and raising children forty years ago and who had their expectations dashed by Paul VI's encyclical...
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...The archipelago of New York, probably one of the greatest of waterfront cities, is given an excellent if partial walking tour by Phillip Lopate's Water-front: A Journey around Manhattan (Crown Publishers, $25.95, 432 pp...
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...ummer would be unthinkable without water—its tempering of heat, its romance, its beauty, its infinite offerings of fun...
...Spartinas grow not far from where the Urus docked, shutting themselves against the salt but drinking the water—and re-minding us why we regard the sea hope-fully, even as its anarchy threatens our peace...
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...The truth is that New York's rivers re-main dangerous, despite all the ingenious engineering to make them serene and navigable...
...They are further reluctant to do that because the ship is docked near the Red Hook Houses, a notorious public housing project...
...They are abysmally paid, hired by third-world "manning agents," who are in turn paid by owners whose identities are hidden behind corporate structures that exist only on paper...
...Will they do more than simply give out prohibitions...
...The bishops may be right in saying that this teaching is due for a renewed presentation...
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...The Gnostic tradition continues to affect popular culture, most notably through the influence of Carl Jung on the Star Wars movie trilogy, New Age spirituality, and the writings of Robertson Davies and Joseph Campbell...
...In the process, it must not lose its soul, or else it becomes useless...
...One can only hope...
...Yet our benign view of water is a very recent phenomenon, as a walk around many major American cities re-minds us...
...If anything goes wrong, these expendable crews are abandoned to their fates—at sea or on land...
...The world's oceans remain "radically free," and that isn't good...
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...But going beyond such works, The Dialectical Development of Doctrine combines the two themes by proposing a necessary two-way dialectic between theology and the world, a dialectic absolutely essential to the healthy growth and development of both our faith and our understanding of the world, as well as of the culture which we continue to create and will bequeath to our children...
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...I've seen no commentary linking Langewiesche's brilliant, much-discussed reporting with the equally brilliant 1997 fictional ac-count of abandoned crews—Francisco Goldman's The Ordinary Seaman (Atlantic Monthly Press, $32.50, 288 pp...
...corn thousands of ships wrecked in its waters...
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...The Gnostics thought that the God worshiped by most Christians was a demiurge or usurper...
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...Based on an actual incident in New York Harbor, Goldman's novel centers on fifteen Central American sailors (though only one has ever been to sea) who are hired to man an appallingly derelict ship, the Urus...
...It was a time when the newly evolving power of the church hierarchy was contested by Gnostic scholars who believed that a true understanding of God could only be achieved by a personal journey of discovery, one that is not mediated by bishops, priests, and deacons of the church...
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...When this proves impossible, the Yuppie, college-educated owners abandon the crew—whose visas have long since expired—assuring they will be illegal aliens as soon as they step on shore...
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...Furthermore, more than forty thousand large merchant ships, not to mention innumerable small coastal craft, wander the world with little or no regulation, plying the open seas and carrying nearly all international trade...
...These texts, as Pagels points out, show us a very different side of Christianity present in the first two centuries after the birth of Christ...
...The second strongest tidal current in the world, behind the Bay of Fundy, the East River (really a tidal strait) was tamed somewhat in the late nineteenth century by engineers who blasted the Gate's treacherous rocks...
...It's funny how even excellent books can pass from public view...
...Still, each metamorphosis sheds enough of the past to let romantic re-constructions become the dominant public impression...
...Lopate writes of New York's transition from "a working port, to an abandoned, seedy no-man's-land, to a highly desirable zone of parks plus upscale retail/residential, each new metamorphosis only incompletely shedding the earlier associations...
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...Historians and theologians have traced the development of Christian doctrine, and even offered theories to explain it...
...A few are scanned for radiation, but almost none is examined with anything like the care now showered on airplanes...
...The tides still obey laws of their own, and they are not the laws of man...
...Goldman's tone of magical realism is vividly appropriate for a tale juxtapos-ing the hope and despair of the bereft crew, who gaze starboard at the Statue of Liberty and the glorious Manhattan skyline, but portside at the threatening Red Hook shoreline...
...They believed that the true divine force did not assume a human form and was capable of fusing polarities (for example, the masculine and the feminine) into one...
...Each goes into debt to pay for his flight to New York, only to find that none will be paid until they make the ship seaworthy...
...says they haven't, they can't, and they never will...
...Goldman's basically romantic ending reminded me of John Casey's lovely 1989 Spartina (Alfred A. Knopf, $18.95, 375 pp...
...Even as waterfront property is today prized above all other, until the 1960s urban waterfronts were primarily industrial, brutal, and cheap...
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...Moreover, the ships draw their crews from "pools of the poor—several million sailors of varying quality, largely now from southern Asia, who bid down for the jobs in a global marketplace and are mixed together without reference to such conventions as language and nationality...
...When I hear people casually saying that their "factory is closed," as a young mother of two recently told me, I find it a depressingly shallow dismissal of this gift...
...The rich lived inland, and with few exceptions, only the poor worked and lived on the water...
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Vol. 131 • June 2004 • No. 12
