Bruce Hindmarsh graduated with a D.Phil. in theology at Oxford University in 1993. He has since published and spoken widely on the history of early British evangelicalism.

He is the author of three books: John Newton and the English Evangelical Tradition(Oxford University Press, 1996), The Evangelical Conversion Narrative (Oxford University Press, 2005), and The Spirit of Early Evangelicalism (Oxford University Press, 2018). His articles have appeared in academic journals such as Church History, the Journal of Ecclesiastical History, and the Huntington Library Quarterly. Dr. Hindmarsh has been a Mayers Research Fellow at the Huntington Library and a recipient of the Henry Luce III Theological Fellowship. A fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he is a past-president of the American Society of Church History.