Bruce Hindmarsh, D.Phil. (Oxon), FR.Hist.S.
James M. Houston Professor of Spiritual Theology and Professor of the History of Christianity, Regent College, Vancouver.
Bruce Hindmarsh took his D.Phil. degree in theology at Oxford University in 1993. From 1995 to 1997 he was also a research fellow at Christ Church, Oxford. He has since published and spoken widely to international audiences on the history of early British evangelicalism.
His articles have appeared in respected academic journals such as Church History, the Journal of Ecclesiastical History, and the Huntington Library Quarterly.
The recipient of numerous teaching awards and research grants, he has also been a research fellow at the Huntington Library and recipient of the Henry Luce III Theological Fellowship. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a past-president of the American Society of Church History.
He teaches the history of Christianity and spiritual theology, and speaks often to lay audiences as well as preaching in his own church and elsewhere. A former staff worker for Youth for Christ and founding director of Camp Cedarwood, he is an active lay member of an Anglican Church. He is married to Carolyn, and they have three children: Bethany, Matthew and Sam. He gave the 2009 MWRC Annual Lecture entitled 'Wesley Agonistes and the Calvinist Sublime: The Spiritual Ideals of the Early English Evangelical School', which has been published in Church History.
Select Publications
The Spirit of Early Evangelicalism (Oxford University Press, 2018).
(with James M. Houston), For Christ and Kingdom: Inspiring a New Generation (Regent College Publishing, 2013).
John Newton and the English Evangelical Tradition: Between the Conversions of Welsey and Wilberforce (Eerdmans, 2001).
The Evangelical Conversion Narrative: Spiritual Biography in Modern England (Oxford, 2008).
The Life and Spirituality of John Newton (Regent College, 2013).
'Evangelical Epistolarity: Spiritual Experience in the Familiar Letters of the Early Evangelicals', in Studies in Cultural History of Letter Writing, eds Susan Green and Linda C. Mitchell (Huntington Library Press, 2014).
'The Inner Life of Doctrine: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Calvinist-Arminian Debate Among Methodists', Presidential Address to the American Society of Church History, 4 January 2014, published in Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 83/2 (2014), 367-397.
'Religious Conversion as Narrative and Autobiography', in Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion, eds Lewis Rambo and Charles Farhadian (Oxford, 2014), 343-368.
'The Transmission of Living Faith: Christian Higher Education as Paradosis', in For Christ and His Kingdom: Inspiring a New Generation (Regent College Publishing, 2013), 11-44.
Article for Review Symposium discussing When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God by Tanya M. Luhrmann, Spiritus 13/1 (2013), 131-33.
'New History of Methodism', Books & Culture (September/October 2012), 22-55.