Background
Adrian Hastings was born on June 23, 1929, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He was a son of William George Warren Hastings and Hazel Mary Hastings.
Douai School, Woolhampton, England, United Kingdom
From 1943 to 1946 Adrian Hastings was educated at Douai School.
Worcester College, Oxford, England, United Kingdom
From 1946 to 1949 Adrian Hastings studied at Worcester College, Oxford.
Christ's College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
In 1958 Adrian Hastings obtained a degree from Christ's College, Cambridge.
(Covering five centuries - from the rise of the Ethiopian ...)
Covering five centuries - from the rise of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in the 15th century and the early Portuguese missionaries right through to the Church and its key role in Africa today - this major new volume is the first complete history of the Christian Church in Africa. Written by a leading authority on Church history who has spent many years in Africa, it looks at all aspects of Christianity in Africa, including its relationship to traditional values and customs, politics, and the comparable rise of Islam in Africa during the period.
https://www.amazon.com/Church-Africa-1450-1950-History-Christian-ebook/dp/B004JF5NL8/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=Church+and+Mission+in+Modern+Africa&qid=1579073722&s=books&sr=1-3
1967
(The churches in Africa probably constitute the most impor...)
The churches in Africa probably constitute the most important growth area for Christianity in the second half of the twentieth century. From being a number of rather tightly controlled 'mission fields' zealously guarded by the great missionary societies, Catholic and Protestant, they have emerged across the last decades in bewildering variety to selfhood, a membership of close on a hundred million adherents and an influential role both within their own societies and in the world Church. This book surveys the history of Christianity throughout sub-Saharan Africa during the third quarter of this century. It begins in 1950 at a time when the churches were still for the most part emphatically part of the colonial order and it takes the story on from there across the coming of political independence and the transformations of the 1960s and early 1970s.
https://www.amazon.com/History-African-Christianity-1950-1975-Studies/dp/0521293979/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=A+History+of+African+Christianity%2C+1950%E2%80%931975+Hastings&qid=1579074224&s=books&sr=1-1
1979
(Twenty or more years have passed since the Second Vatican...)
Twenty or more years have passed since the Second Vatican Council made African Catholicism seem a feasible, bewitching mixture of Gospel freedom, mediaeval en rootedness and Third World contemporaneity. Now it has entered a 'dark tunnel', a church of silence working out its future in isolation, poverty, and faith. In these essays Adrian Hastings analyses aspects of African Catholicism today, the prophetic role of the christian church in Africa, the sacrificial death of some of its prophetic figures, the ambiguous situation of the church in racist South Africa, the position of women who are Christianity's principal asset, the importance of African theology, now a lived rather than a published, phenomenon and the ambiguous figure of Archbishop Milingo, exorcist and healer.
https://www.amazon.com/African-Catholicism-Discovery-Adrian-Hastings/dp/033400019X/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=Adrian+Hastings&qid=1579075011&s=books&sr=1-5
1989
(Covering five centuries - from the rise of the Ethiopian ...)
Covering five centuries - from the rise of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in the 15th century and the early Portuguese missionaries right through to the Church and its key role in Africa today--this major new volume is the first complete history of the Christian Church in Africa. Written by a leading authority on Church history who has spent many years in Africa, it looks at all aspects of Christianity in Africa, including its relationship to traditional values and customs, politics, and the comparable rise of Islam in Africa during the period.
https://www.amazon.com/Church-Africa-1450-1950-History-Christian/dp/0198263996/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+Church+in+Africa%2C+1450%E2%80%931950+Hastings&qid=1579074429&s=books&sr=1-1
1994
(This interdisciplinary book straddles the fields of histo...)
This interdisciplinary book straddles the fields of history, politics, religion and sociology, and medieval and modern history. Its importance lies in its contribution to arguments about the meaning and origin of nationalism, ethnicity, and nationhood, and in challenging the widely-accepted "modernist" theories of Eric Hobsbawm, Benedict Anderson, and others. Its argument incorporates careful analysis of English, Irish, South Slav, and African examples, and suggests finally an important contract between Christianity and Islam.
https://www.amazon.com/Construction-Nationhood-Ethnicity-Religion-Nationalism/dp/0521625440/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+Construction+of+Nationhood%3A+Ethnicity%2C+Religion+and+Nationalism+Hastings&qid=1579074547&s=books&sr=1-1
1997
(Christianity is the most global of religions. However, mo...)
Christianity is the most global of religions. However, most books on the subject fail to do justice to the history of Christianity outside Europe and North America. This prodigious work provides the first genuinely global one-volume study of the rise, development, and impact of the Christian faith.
https://www.amazon.com/World-History-Christianity-Adrian-Hastings-ebook/dp/B005YXUBPC/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Adrian+Hastings&qid=1579074883&s=books&sr=1-2
1999
clergyman educator historian theologian author
Adrian Hastings was born on June 23, 1929, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He was a son of William George Warren Hastings and Hazel Mary Hastings.
From 1943 to 1946 Adrian Hastings was educated at Douai School. From 1946 to 1949 he studied at Worcester College, Oxford. In 1958 he obtained a degree from Christ's College, Cambridge.
Adrian Hastings was an ordained Roman Catholic priest who spent several years as a priest in African beneath an African bishop. Also a professor, he lectured at a number of institutions including the University of Leeds. From 1982 to 1985 he was a professor of religious studies at the University of Zimbabwe. From 1985 to 1996 he was a professor and head of the theology department at the University of Leeds.
An outspoken person who brought attention to the injustices he witnessed during his life, Hastings most recently helped start the Alliance to Defend Bosnia-Herzegovina, which was prompted by alleged mass killings in Bosnia and Kosovo during the early 1990s.
He was a prolific author whose works include Prophet and Witness in Jerusalem, Christian Marriage in Africa, A History of English Christianity, and The Church in Africa, 1450-1950. Hastings served as editor of the Journal of Religion in Africa.
(Covering five centuries - from the rise of the Ethiopian ...)
1967(Covering five centuries - from the rise of the Ethiopian ...)
1994(Twenty or more years have passed since the Second Vatican...)
1989(The churches in Africa probably constitute the most impor...)
1979(This interdisciplinary book straddles the fields of histo...)
1997(Christianity is the most global of religions. However, mo...)
1999(Book by Hastings, Adrian)
1974On March 31, 1979, Adrian Hastings married Elizabeth Ann Spence.