Books by Adrian Hastings

This work provides a judicious and balanced overview of the most important ecclesiastical issues, debates and developments of the modern era.

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.