Dr. Ryan M. Reeves is a graduate of Samford University (B.A.) and Reformed Theological Seminary (M.A. and M. Div.). He earned his Ph. D. from Cambridge University. He was Associate Professor of Historical Theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, where he also served as Dean of the Jacksonville campus.
This excellent series of 54 videos on “The Early and Medieval Church” are found on Youtube for the general public. They are made freely available by the generosity and expertise of Dr. Ryan Reeves for which we are grateful. These are simply links to those videos. The playlist for this series can also be found at: Early & Medieval Church History – YouTube Dr. Ryan Reeves (you may want to subscribe to his Youtube channel).
1) The Ancient Greek World
2) The Ancient Roman World
3) Roman Pagan Life and Worship
4) Plato, Aristotle and Stoicism
5) Early Christian Persecution
6) Apostolic Fathers
7) Christian Apologists and Early Heresies
8) Gnosticism and the Early Church
9) Monasticism
10) Rome and the Third Century Crisis
11) Diocletian and the Tetrarchy
12) Constantine the Great
13) The Byzantine Christian Empire (Part 1)
14) The Byzantine Christian Empire (Part 2)
15) Creeds and Councils: What are they?
16) Early Church and the Trinity: Father and Son
17) Arius and Nicea
18) After Nicea
19) Council of Constantinople
20) Disputes on Christ: Nestorius and Cyril
21) Council of Chalcedon
22) Ambrose and Jerome
23) Augustine (Part 1)
24) Augustine (Part 2)
25) Medieval Overview
26) The Merovingians
27) Who was Charlemagne?
28) The Vikings
29) Alfred the Great & the Anglo Saxons
30) Al Andalus Spain
31) Knights and Chivalry
32) The First Crusades (Part 1)
33) The Crusades (Part 2)
34) Medieval Life, Death, and Marriage
35) Medieval Society
36) Magna Carta
37) Black Death
38) Great Schism (1054)
39) Avignon Papacy
40) 100 Years War
41) Papal Schism
42) Boethius and Christian Philosophy
43) Aristotle and Scholasticism
44) Anselm on God: the Ontological Argument
45) Abelard on the Trinity
46) Abelard on the Cross
47) Bernard of Clairvaux
48) Duns Scotus
49) Thomas Aquinas (Part 1)
50) Thomas Aquinas (Part 2)
51) William of Ockham
52) John Wycliffe
53) Jan Hus and the Hussites
54) Humanism