Ross Hastings

William Ross Hastings is a Canadian-based Zimbabwean-Scottish systematic theologian. 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 coached 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 while 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. After completing his PhD in theology at the University of St Andrews in 2004, 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.

Publications The Glory of the Ascension: Celebrating a Doctrine for the Life of the Church ) The Resurrection of Jesus Christ: Exploring Its Theological Significance and Ongoing Relevance (; ). Pastoral Ethics: Moral Formation as Life in the Trinity (; ). Theological Ethics: The Moral Life of the Gospel in Contemporary Context . Total Atonement: Trinitarian Participation in the Reconciliation of Humanity and Creation . Echoes of Coinherence: Trinitarian Theology and Science Together . Where Do Broken Hearts Go? An Integrative, Participational Theology of Grief . Jonathan Edwards and the Life of God: Toward an Evangelical Theology of Participation . Missional God, Missional Church: Hope for Re-evangelizing the West .