ABSTRACT
Jean-Pierre Brisset acknowledges that God's frequent wrath and vindictiveness were motivated by the reality of a sinning, lawbreaking humanity, even if he shrinks from the totally arbitrary spraying of suffering by a completely unpredictable deity as in other Middle Eastern religions, Brisset's God is mysterious, paradoxical, scandalous. Given his view of God as all-knowing, and all-powerful, Brisset seems to have little difficulty with the commonly expressed grievance that a loving God should not tolerate human suffering or evil. Brisset's premiss of God's master-plan ensures that he believes in Satan, for he is the crucial element in the testing of humankind. Brisset stands proudly towards the Protestant end of the western religious spectrum, with Catholicism at the other. Brisset was indeed a kind of bibliolater, but he also secreted many good pagan, human-all-too-human preoccupations. Brisset in fact thought he was in charge, the revealer of divine secrets buried in words. There was an indisputable method in his madness.
