NOT OFFERED 2023-24

GOD’S TAPESTRY

High School Multiple Credit

Course: A history-based humanities and social sciences curriculum with instruction seamlessly interwoven into a challenging multi-credit and multi-track four-year Christian education for your 14 to 18 year old boy or girl.

  • Combines home-school study with classroom teaching
  • Age-appropriate for high school
  • Focuses on truths, not just facts
  • Multi-credit humanities course
  • Accelerated program for advanced students available
  • Designed to enhance home schooling
  • Work is based on student research and initiative
  • Seamlessly interwoven high school humanities studies
  • Principles approach providing a framework for a Christian world view
  • Thoroughly Christian and evangelical

GOD’S TAPESTRY

Just as a tapestry is a seamless interweaving of various threads over the warp and woof strings of a great loom to form an overall picture so the Quo Vadis Tapestry seamlessly interweaves the humanities in one combined curriculum using a principles approach to isolate God’s overarching truths from the myriad of facts, the “threads” of God’s tapestry called history. The warp strings represent the view from the pinnacle of God’s temple, so to speak. It is the high view that sees God’s great redemptive work in its fullness and to His glory alone. Man is seen in all his sinfulness and frailty and his righteousness as filthy rags.

The woof strings represent our daily life of walking among all the other pilgrims on life’s journey. Here we are concerned with what kind of life is good and what kind of society is best and what our particular vocation might be as well as such issues as marriage and child-raising. It is not disconnected from the issue of redemption but it is not the same question either. It concerns promoting and preserving what we call civilization – fruitful society.

Taking our cue from God’s mission for us to be fruitful through subduing and ruling we look from the dual perspective of God’s eternal redemptive work and as fellow workers with a myriad of others attempting to preserve and promote Christian Civilization. These two concepts: the eternal kingdom and Christian Civilization glance our stewardship in this life and the next.

COURSE OVERVIEW

God’s Tapestry combines a four year chronological study of history from a Christian world view combined with a study of some of the greatest Christian and classical literature appropriate to each period. Includes a thorough study of key portions of key Old and New Testament books. Church history is also carefully interwoven with the secular history of the period to give the students a fully integrated view of the time line of history. We look into the minds and hearts of each period by a study of arts and ideas that will give the students not only an appreciation for the finest examples of beauty but a discerning look at true and false concepts as they are represented in the music and visual arts of the time. Interwoven with this is a thoroughly evangelical study of important doctrines of systematic theology, world view studies and Christian Apologetics from the greatest theologians of history as well as the study of philosophic issues appropriate to Christian thought. American history, government and economics are also interwoven at their appropriate places.

**God’s Tapestry should not be confused with a strict self-study or correspondence course or with a traditional school curriculum of classes and homework. God’s Tapestry is committed to helping home-schooling parents with their task at the high school level. It works best with regular parental oversight and is really home-schooling with supplementary lectures to give the interaction of ideas and expertise that helps in the educational task. This is an ideal combination: home-schooling with a high-quality curriculum and added classroom instruction by a well-trained teacher.

FEATURES
Subjects that are interwoven over 4 years:

  • Western History, Ancient to Modern times (4 years,4 credits)
  • American History (1 year, 1 credit)
  • English – The Literary Classics; Great Books of the Western World; Christian Classics (5 yrs, 5 credits)
  • Art history and appreciation (2 years, 1 full credit)
  • Geography (1 year, 1 credit) Bible (1 year, 1 credit)
  • Systematic Theology and Apologetics; Christian worldview studies and philosophy (interwoven throughout)
  • Government (1 year, 1 credit)
  • Time management and classroom skills (throughout)
  • Civilization Core Principles (throughout)
  • Texas History and Geography available for Middle School or as a High School elective

Collateral add-ons available to fill out your education ( varies from year to year) such as English Report Writing and Speech Communication. You can receive 22 out of 26 high school recommended courses through Quo Vadis. Add advanced math or science through dual credit and sports or art and complete your curriculum!