Bible & Theology Course Descriptions

Written descriptions of Bible and theology courses, for the pages that sit behind a high school transcript. Twenty-six in the Protestant edition, thirty in the Catholic. Editable Word, so your own books and your own year can go into them.

What is in it

• Protestant edition, 26 descriptions. Old Testament survey, New Testament survey, whole-Bible survey, Life of Christ, Acts and the early church, wisdom literature, the Pauline epistles, apologetics, worldview, church history in two halves, introduction to theology, Christian ethics, how to study the Bible, memory and recitation, missions and missionary biography, a Christian service practicum, Christian classics, hymnody and sacred music, Bible geography and archaeology, introductory Greek, introductory Hebrew, comparative religions, the Church Fathers, family devotional reading, and Lewis and Tolkien.
• Catholic edition, 30 descriptions. Those twenty-six, printed word for word the same, and four written for a Catholic record: the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Lives of the Saints, Liturgy and the Sacraments, and Catholic apologetics. The Church Fathers course sits in both editions.
• Level and credit marked on every one. Regular or Honors, whole credit or half. A semester in Acts is booked as a semester, not padded out to a year.
• An "Aligns with" line naming the academic course or curriculum shape the description usually sits beside.

Scripture and translations

Very little scripture is printed in either file. A description names the books a course covered and the shape of the year. The translation stays yours, because your student read whichever Bible is on your shelf. The cover epigraph is the King James in the Protestant edition and the Douay-Rheims, Challoner revision, in the Catholic. Public domain only. We do not reproduce a copyrighted translation, and we do not paraphrase one to get around that.

One thing to watch if you write a reference into your own copy. Douay psalm numbers run one behind the King James through most of the Psalter, so the shepherd psalm is Psalm 22 in a Douay-Rheims and Psalm 23 in a King James. Check the number against the translation you name.

What is not in it

Faith courses only. The 131 academic descriptions are a separate file, as are the transcript, the fifty-one state summaries, the records pack and the guide. It is also not curriculum. These describe study that already happened. They do not assign it.

Straight answers

Will a college count a Bible credit? Some count it in full, some count it as an elective, some discount it. A description does not change a college's policy. What it does is make the credit legible, so a reader can see the hours and the books instead of guessing.

Does a state require Bible? We know of no state that lists Bible among its required subjects. These are credits a family chose to give, not credits anyone asked for.

How many hours is one credit? The convention repeated across the field is 120 to 180 hours for a full credit and 60 to 90 for a half. The descriptions are written to that scale.

Which edition do I get? The one you pick at checkout. Two separate files.

What format? A Word .docx, editable throughout. Rewrite it to your own translation, your own reading plan, your own church.

About the price

$14, one household, every child you teach. This file is also inside the Homeschool High School Records System at $39, with the transcript workbook, the 131 academic descriptions, the fifty-one state summaries, the records pack and the guide, and all four of our standalone files come to $66.

Instant download. Personal single-household use. If it is not right for you, write within 14 days and we will refund it without asking you to justify it.