Bible

About this course

Eleventh grade slows down and works book by book. The Old Testament units treat Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy each on their own terms rather than as one blur, then move through Joshua, Judges, Ruth, the united monarchy, the divided kingdom, the prophets, and the wisdom and poetry books. It does not step around the hard places. The lesson on Joshua takes up the command to destroy the Canaanite cities directly, sets out the considerations that bear on it, notes that Rahab was spared, and then says plainly that the Anabaptist tradition does not read the conquest as a model for Christian conduct. Church history is similarly candid: alongside Nicaea, Athanasius, Augustine, Benedict and monasticism, the Great Schism, and Anselm and Aquinas, there is a full lesson evaluating the Crusades that calls the massacres indefensible, acknowledges what provoked the campaigns, and draws the Anabaptist conclusion about what happens when the church takes up the sword.

The ethics strand this year is built on theory before application. It opens with metaethics and lays out divine command theory, natural law, and virtue ethics with the standard objection to each, then applies that framework to the sanctity of life, abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, three Christian positions on war, wealth and poverty, competing economic systems, creation care, and marriage as covenant. Apologetics compares presuppositional and evidential method, then works through the cosmological, teleological, moral, ontological, and argument-from-reason cases, the New Atheists, the problem of evil, the minimal-facts argument for the resurrection, the claim that Jesus never existed, and a lesson on responding to Islam.

The course is 180 lessons across 15 units, one per school day, at about 30 minutes each. Lessons are compact, roughly 350 words of tightly packed argument with the King James text cited throughout, and a portion of them close with a Review and Apply section that hands you a specific question to ask and a verse to close in prayer. Every lesson ends with a ten-question multiple-choice quiz that grades itself. The material is written for a student who can already read theology and is ready to be handed the objections rather than shielded from them.

What the course covers

• The Pentateuch book by book, including Leviticus and Numbers
• The historical books, the monarchy, the prophets, and the wisdom literature
• Hard questions in the Old Testament, including the Canaanite conquest
• The Gospels, Passion Week, the resurrection, and the book of Acts
• Canon, textual transmission, translation, and the grammatical-historical method
• Church history: Nicaea, Athanasius, Augustine, monasticism, the Schism, scholasticism
• An honest evaluation of the Crusades and of church power
• Apologetic method: presuppositional and evidential approaches compared
• Metaethics: divine command theory, natural law, and virtue ethics
• Applied ethics: life, war, wealth, economic systems, creation care, marriage

What your student will be able to do

• Summarize the argument and contribution of any single book of the Bible
• Apply the grammatical-historical method to a difficult passage
• Face a hard Old Testament text honestly rather than explaining it away
• Distinguish the major metaethical theories and argue from one deliberately
• Choose between presuppositional and evidential approaches for a given conversation
• Evaluate an episode of church history by the standard of Scripture

Scope and sequence

All 15 units of Bible for Grade 11, in the order they are taught.

Every lesson, by title

All 180 lesson titles are listed here — nothing is withheld until you download. Open a unit to read its contents.

One whole lesson, exactly as it comes

This is a real lesson taken from the middle of the course — the teaching text, the practice, the homework, and the first three quiz questions with their answers. It is not a marketing excerpt.

What you will need

Drawn from the materials named across all 180 lessons of this course. Most families already own most of it.