Ryan M Reeves
272K subscribers
For business inquiries: [email protected] If you've ever watched a documentary about the Renaissance or the Crusades or the early church and walked away feeling like the story got scrubbed clean (names, dates, a moral, no theology, no ideas), you're in the right place. I'm Ryan M. Reeves. I earned my PhD at Cambridge and I've written three books (with Zondervan, Baker, and Brill). The work I do here is the same work I do in print: take a subject everyone has heard of and go deeper (if I can) or connect it all together so you can see the big picture. The thread is history and theology, but it lives wherever the ideas live. Sometimes that thread runs through Reformation Europe; sometimes through medieval canon law, Renaissance art, or the eschatology of the 19th-century. The connecting tissue is depth, not just more information. I take the subjects seriously. I don't take myself seriously, and I don't take the standard takes seriously either. The fun is finding out why.
The Insane Story of the Anabaptist Kingdom of Münster
Ryan M Reeves · 100K views · 2 months ago
The Spanish Inquisition Wasn't What You Think
Ryan M Reeves · 131K views · 3 months ago
The First Crusades (Part I)
Ryan M Reeves · 528K views · 11 years ago
American Revolution and the Church
Ryan M Reeves · 135K views · 11 years ago
The Covenanters and Scotland's Killing Time (1684–1685)
Ryan M Reeves · 84K views · 2 months ago
Later Lutheranism (part I)
Ryan M Reeves · 106K views · 11 years ago
Martin Luther: Speyer to Marburg
Ryan M Reeves · 64K views · 11 years ago
Erasmus vs. Luther: The Fight Over Free Will
Ryan M Reeves · 184K views · 6 months ago
Dutch Revolt and Arminianism
Ryan M Reeves · 275K views · 11 years ago
Luther's Reformation Breakthrough
Ryan M Reeves · 120K views · 11 years ago
Early Church and Trinity: Father and Son
Ryan M Reeves · 239K views · 11 years ago
Disputes on Christ: Nestorius and Cyril
Ryan M Reeves · 196K views · 11 years ago
The Ancient Greek World
Ryan M Reeves · 473K views · 12 years ago
Black Death
Ryan M Reeves · 141K views · 12 years ago
Late Medieval Background to the Reformation
Ryan M Reeves · 363K views · 11 years ago
Calvin and Bullinger: the Reformed Tradition
Ryan M Reeves · 91K views · 11 years ago
After Nicea
Ryan M Reeves · 207K views · 11 years ago
Calvin, England, and Scotland
Ryan M Reeves · 68K views · 11 years ago
Luther and Calvin on Predestination
Ryan M Reeves · 237K views · 11 years ago
Council of Constantinople
Ryan M Reeves · 177K views · 11 years ago