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Ryan Reeves church history lectures

Full lecture courses on YouTube from a historical theologian who taught at Gordon-Conwell: Ancient and Medieval Church, Reformation and Modern Church, Luther and Calvin, and Tolkien and Lewis. Each lecture runs about half an hour and is written for a general audience.

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Why this is listed

The channel is live with about 274,000 subscribers. Course listings elsewhere describe 55 lectures on early and medieval history and 39 on Reformation and modern church history, all free. Reeves's current post at Gordon-Conwell was not confirmed; several sources speak of it in the past tense.

How to start

  1. Open youtube.com (opens an external site) and read what Ryan M. Reeves (YouTube) says about itself before you read anything else.
  2. Confirm the cost and level fit: free, intermediate, over months.
  3. Note the tradition — Broadly evangelical. It will shape what you are taught, and that is worth knowing going in.
  4. Put the first session in your calendar now. The gap between reading about study and doing it is a calendar entry.

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