Theological farce, anyone? Try Peter Berger’s novel. (Yes, novel.)

Protocol of a Damnation By Peter Berger Seabury, 208 pp., $7.95 All of these people except Cabral (who is there only in Jacob van Buren’s mind) are gathered in Ascona and Ombelico, Switzerland, in the summer of 1965:

Jacob van Buren, age 48, tattooed Dutch photographer and narrator of this book. Many years ago, hiding out from the Japanese in Indonesia, he had what he calls “an inkling of a supernatural reality.” It lasted three weeks. Since then he has been a confirmed agnostic.

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Protocol of a Damnation By Peter Berger Seabury, 208 pp., $7.95 All of these people except Cabral (who is there only in Jacob van Buren’s mind) are gathered in Ascona and Ombelico, Switzerland, in the summer of 1965:

Jacob van Buren, age 48, tattooed Dutch photographer and narrator of this book. Many years ago, hiding out from the Japanese in Indonesia, he had what he calls “an inkling of a supernatural reality.” It lasted three weeks. Since then he has been a confirmed agnostic.