The history section in the God who risks is too broad for the time I have. I thank you for your diligence and time. David Some Answers Hi David.
Brents takes the biblical texts on divine repentance and change of mind very seriously.
His book was considered by many to have served as a kind of systematic theology for the reformers of the day associated with my heritage. An interesting aspect in light of the current anti-openness polemic which charges open theism with diminishing God's sovereignty and power is that Brents claims the opposite. In his view, God has the power and freedom to choose not to know whatever he wants. Brents saw Calvinism's absolute determinism and foreknowledge as the views which in fact diminished God's glorious sovereignty and free agency, not permitting God either the power or freedom not to know. My 1890 edition of Brents includes endpapers with endorsements from several periodicals and notable personalities, some of which criticize his chapter on foreknowledge, but most of which heartily endorse it.