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Dr. Ryan Reeves

Professor of Theology and Church History

Dr. Ryan M. Reeves, Ph.D.

Professor of Theology & Church History

📧 ryan.reeves@kairos.aeu.edu


Academic Degrees & Education

University of Cambridge (Queens’ College)

Ph.D. in Historical Theology – 2006–2010

Reformed Theological Seminary – Orlando

M.A. in Theological Studies – 2001–2004

M.Div. – 2001–2005

Samford University

B.A. in Religion and Philosophy – 1996–2000

Universität Münster, Germany (2000–2001)

Attended courses in:

• Apostlesgeschichte

• Justification & Sanctification in Calvin and Barth

• Luther’s Large Catechism

• Overview of Church History

Centro Pro Unione, Rome – Summer 2004

Institute for Ecumenism – Focused on the Reformation, Vatican II, and inter-faith dialogue

University of Notre Dame – Summer 2006

Courses in Medieval Latin and Palaeography (Prof. Frank Mantello)


Academic Appointments & Experience

Kairos University (Campus of America Evangelical Seminary)

Professor of Theology and Church History – 2021–Present

Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary

Dean & Assistant Professor of Historical Theology – 2011–2019

Instructor of Historical Theology – 2010–2011

University of Cambridge (Divinity Faculty)

Guest Lecturer – 2008 & 2009

• Lecture: “Databases and Modern Research Tools in Historical Research”

Graduate Representative – 2007–2009

Convenor, Postgraduate Reformation Reading Group – 2006–2008


Areas of Specialization

• Protestant Reformation

• Early Modern Europe

• Historical Theology

• Calvin and Luther

• English Reformation & the Tudor Dynasty

• Religion & Politics in Early Modern England

• Lewis & Tolkien

• Literature & Faith

• History of Doctrine


Publications


Books

Know How We Got Our Bible – Zondervan, 2018

The Story of Creeds and Confessions – Baker Academic, 2019

English Evangelicals and Tudor Obedience, c. 1527–1570 – Brill, 2014


Articles

• “‘Ye Gods’: The Magistrate and Political Obedience in Humanism and English Thought, c. 1515–1554” – Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte, 2014


Book Reviews (Selected)

Polly Ha, English Presbyterianism – Sixteenth Century Journal

Paul Avis, Beyond the Reformation? – Religious Studies Review

Gary Jenkins, John Jewel and the English National Church – Reformation & Renaissance Review, 2006

Stephen Grabill, Natural Law in Reformed Ethics – Sixteenth Century Journal, 2007

John McDiarmid, ed., Monarchical Republic of Early Modern England – Sixteenth Century Journal, 2010


Editorial Contribution

• Final manuscript editing – Peter Martyr Vermigli and the European Reformations, Brill, 2004


Academic Honors & Awards

Archbishop Cranmer Prize – University of Cambridge History Faculty, 2009

Awarded for essay on doctrinal and political changes in the Church of England (1500–1700)


Invited Papers & Conferences

Sixteenth Century Conference, Geneva – 2009

Co-organized panel: “Theories of Kingship in the Reformed Tradition”

University of St Andrews, Reformation Studies Institute – May 2009

Paper: “Political Obedience, English Monarchy and the Reformation”

University of Cambridge, Church History Seminar – Dec 2008

Paper: “‘Ye Gods’: The Magistrate and Political Obedience in Humanism and English Thought”

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