W. ROSS HASTINGS
B.Sc. Hons. Chemistry, University of the Witwatersrand.
MA, Theology, Regent College, Vancouver.
PhD (Chemistry, Queen's, Ontario).
PhD (Theology, St. Andrews, Scotland).
Sangwoo Youtong Chee Professor of Theology, Regent College, Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada.
BOOKS
Ross Hastings is the author of seven books including Theological Ethics: The Moral Life of the Gospel in Contemporary Context, and Total Atonement: Trinitarian Participation in the Reconciliation of Humanity and Creation.
ARTICLES
Ross Hastings is the author of several articles, in peer-reviewed
Journals and
Academic publications, including "Discerning the Spirit: Ambivalent Assurance in the Soteriology of Jonathan Edwards and Barthian Correctives."
LECTURES
Listen to Ross Hastings' lectures such as A Theology of Depression: A Personal Narrative on the Economy of Divine Strength Through Weakness, Empowering the Church for Re-evangelization, and One Priest for the Many: Theological themes of the Book of Hebrews.
MY RECENT AND UPCOMING BOOKS
COURSES I TEACH
SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY I
Theology Proper, Christology, Anthropology, Theology of Creation
TOTAL ATONEMENT
Trinitarian Participation in the Reconciliation of Humanity and Creation
ABOUT ME
Ross Hastings, a Zimbabwean Scot, holds PhDs in organometallic chemistry (Queen’s University, Kingston) and theology (University of St Andrews, Scotland). His teaching interests include systematic and historical theology, Trinitarian theology, pastoral theology, theology and spirituality of mission, ethics, and the interface between science and theology. In addition to teaching theology and chemistry, he has served as a senior pastor in several churches, most recently pastoring Peace Portal Alliance Church in White Rock, BC for 11 years.
Ross's most recent work is Theological Ethics: The Moral Life of the Gospel in Contemporary Context. Other published works include Total Atonement: Trinitarian Participation in the Reconciliation of Humanity and Creation (Fortress Academic/Lexington, 2019), Missional God, Missional Church: Hope for Re-evangelizing the West (IVP, 2012), Jonathan Edwards and the Life of God: Toward an Evangelical Theology of Participation (Fortress Press, 2015), Where Do Broken Hearts Go? A Theology and Psychology of Grief (Cascade, 2016), and Echoes of Coinherence: Trinitarian Theology and Science Together (Eugene, OR.: Cascade, 2017). He currently serves as the Sangwoo Youtong Chee Professor of Theology at Regent College.