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William Ross Hastings is a Zimbabwean Scottish Systematic Theologian, now living in Canada. He is the Sangwoo Youtong Chee Professor of Theology, at Regent College, Vancouver.

Career
Hastings began his career as a high school chemistry teacher at St. Martin’s School in Rosettenville, Johannesburg, where he was also a coach for rugby, cricket and tennis. Later he taught, and was the school headmaster, at Grainger Grammar School in Newcastle upon Tyne in England. After obtaining his Ph.D. in chemistry, he taught at Trinity Western University whilst also fulfilling a pastorate at Westminster Chapel in Burnaby, BC. He then pastored at Westview Bible Church in Montreal, and Peace Portal Alliance Church in Surrey, BC. He started teaching theology at Regent College in 2006 and became the Sangwoo Youtong Chee Professor of Theology at Regent College, Vancouver in 2016. He become full professor in 2018.

Academic Books

 * The Resurrection of Jesus Christ: Exploring Its Theological Significance and Ongoing Relevance (OCLC 1260241456; ISBN: 9781540965295, 9781540964922, 1540965295, 1540964922).
 * Pastoral Ethics: Moral Formation as Life in the Trinity(OCLC 1336019967; ISBN: 9781683595465, 1683595467).
 * Theological Ethics: The Moral Life of the Gospel in Contemporary Context (ISBN: 9780310111955, 0310111951; OCLC 1235900909).
 * Total Atonement: Trinitarian Participation in the Reconciliation of Humanity and Creation (ISBN: 9781978702134, 1978702132; OCLC 1108551763).
 * Echoes of Coinherence: Trinitarian Theology and Science Together (ISBN: 9781498240802, 9781532616846, 1498240801, 1532616848; OCLC 983694477).
 * Where Do Broken Hearts Go? An Integrative, Participational Theology of Grief (ISBN: 9781498278492, 9781498278478, 1498278493, 1498278477; OCLC 951645732).
 * Jonathan Edwards and the Life of God: Toward an Evangelical Theology of Participation(ISBN: 9781451487695, 145148769X; OCLC 889524335).
 * Missional God, Missional Church: Hope for Re-evangelizing the West (ISBN: 9780830839551, 0830839550; OCLC 794032484).

Peer-reviewed Journals and Academic publications:

 * W. Ross Hastings, ‘“Honouring the Spirit”: analysis and evaluation of Jonathan Edwards’ pneumatological doctrine of the incarnation.’  International Journal of Systematic Theology 7 (No.3) July 2005, 279-299.
 * W. Ross Hastings, ‘Discerning the Spirit: Ambivalent assurance in the soteriology of Jonathan Edwards and Barthian correctives.’ Scottish Journal of Theology 63 (04), 2010, 437-455. (ISSN: 0036-9306; OCLC 8272075707).
 * W. Ross Hastings, “Jonathan Edwards on the Trinity: A Current Evaluation of its Place and Its Controversial Facets,” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 59, No.3 (2016), 585-600.
 * W. Ross Hastings, “Karl Barth: Human Identity and the Freedom of God in Christ” in Sources of the Christian Self: A Cultural History of Christian Identity, eds. James M. Houston and Jens Zimmermann (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2018).
 * W. Ross Hastings and William Watson, “Matthew Henry: Expounding the Scriptures,” in A Legacy of Preaching, vols. 1 and 2, eds. Benjamin Forrest, Kevin L. King, Bill Curtis and Dwayne Milioni (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2018), vol. 1, 427-439.
 * W. Ross Hastings, “Theology and Science in Torrance,” in Thomas F. Torrance and Evangelical Theology: A Critical Analysis, eds. Myk Habets and R. Lucas Stamps, Bellingham, WA.: Lexham Press, 2023, 111-132.
 * W. Ross Hastings, “Divine and Created Agency in Asymmetric Concursus: A Barthian Option” in Oliver Crisp and Fred Sanders, eds. Divine Action and Providence (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2019), 115-136. ISBN: 9780310106883, 0310106885; OCLC 1090174149.
 * W. Ross Hastings, “ ‘The Word Became Flesh’: Christian Theology and Science as Coinherent, Not Conflicted . . . A Post-Intellectual Approach” in Is the Gospel Good News? McMaster New Testament Studies Series, Stanley E. Porter and Hughson T. Ong, eds. (Eugene, OR.: Pickwick, 2019), 179-222. ISBN: 9781532611346, 9781532611322, 9781532611339, 153261134X, 1532611323, 1532611331; OCLC 1102343766.
 * W. Ross Hastings, "Trinitarian," Kingdom Come: Reflections in Honour of Jonathan R. Wilson (Eugene, OR.: Wipf & Stock, 2022), 162-169. ISBN: 9781666723915, 1666723916; OCLC 1345638676.

Conference Presentations:

 * 1) W. Ross Hastings, The Life of God in Jonathan Edwards: Towards an Evangelical Theology of Participation, in the History of Christianity and North American Religions program unit at the PNW AAR/SBL/ASOR meeting at Marylhurst University (March 28, 2015) in Portland, Oregon.
 * 2) W. Ross Hastings, “Jonathan Edwards on the Trinity,” an invited lecture at the Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, Atlanta, GA., in the “Models of God” session, November 18, 2015.

Popular Articles:

 * 1) Ross Hastings, ‘What DNA Matter Did the Baby Jesus Have?’ in ‘Ask a Theologian’ section, Faith Today, November/December 2006.
 * 2) W. Ross Hastings, Ask a Theologian: ‘Did God create out of His essence or His will?’ in ‘Ask a Theologian’ section, Faith Today, July/ August 2008.
 * 3) Ross Hastings, ‘Missional Church: Fad or Foundation?’ Faith Today, Sept/October 2010, 23-4.
 * 4) W. Ross Hastings, ‘What Science and Theology Have in Common’, Faith Today, November/December 2011, 20-21.