Our Curriculum Approach

✝️ Bible Content

Classical Quest's Bible content (the Verse Hall memory-verse drill, the Travels of Paul narrative adventure, future Bible Saga adventures) takes an unapologetically conservative Christian literal interpretation. When Acts says Paul saw the risen Christ on the Damascus road, we write the scene as Paul having seen the risen Christ — not as a psychological episode, not as a literary device, not de-mythologized.

We follow the same literary discipline our Odyssey adventure applies to Athena's epiphanies: the narrative voice takes the text seriously. The result is a Bible-anchored (not Bible-adjacent) reading experience. Most narrative panels now begin with the verse they dramatize (e.g., 📖 Acts 9:3-6 →) so the scriptural source is unmissable.

Within that conservative-literal frame, the curriculum is deliberately non-denominational. We avoid content that splits the conservative Christian audience — baptism mode, end-times frameworks, church government, spiritual gifts. Where extra-biblical Church tradition is invoked (e.g., the post-Acts traditional martyrdoms of Paul and the apostles), we cite the source inline (1 Clement, Eusebius, Tertullian, Jerome) and frame it explicitly as tradition, not scripture. Episode 14 of the Travels of Paul adventure carries a “TRADITION (not scripture)” banner for exactly this reason.

The Bible section is opt-in. A non-Christian family can use Classical Quest's Latin, classical timeline, geography, math, science, English, and fine-arts content without ever entering the Bible section. We don't push it on anyone. But if your family wants to enter, we want you to be amazed by the depth of learning available.

🔭 Science Content

Classical Quest's science content sits within the young-earth creationist framing common to most classical Christian homeschools — the Apologia curriculum's posture, the Memoria Press posture, the Well-Trained Mind posture (in its conservative variants), and other conservative classical co-op postures. We don't try to do both Genesis literal-historical AND theistic evolution; the families using us don't need that, and doing both poorly serves no one.

Where current scientific consensus and a literal Genesis chronology disagree, the practice questions reflect the young-earth framing for ages of the earth, the timeline of life, and the Genesis flood. Topics not in tension with scripture — chemistry, physics, anatomy, botany, the periodic table, the laws of motion, the water cycle — are taught without theological overlay.

Families who prefer an old-earth or theistic-evolution framing can skip the timeline-of-life questions; the rest of the science content stands independently. A toggle for this is on the roadmap but not yet shipped.

🏛️ Classical Studies

Greek and Roman content (the Odyssey Adventure, Latin grammar, mythology cards, the timeline) is taught at full literary register. Homer's Olympus and Vergil's Aeneid are taken seriously on their own terms — as the literary, philosophical, and cultural foundation Western Christianity inherits, not as mere “pagan background.”

The Odyssey Adventure depicts Athena, Zeus, and the Olympian council as Homer's poem depicts them. This is the standard classical-Christian approach (the same one Augustine, Aquinas, Lewis, and the modern classical- education movement inherit) — read the pagan classics with full attention, take their literary truth seriously, and understand them as the cultural soil into which the gospel arrived in the first century.

📖Translation & Transliteration Conventions

• English Bible: core English memory work is NKJV-reviewed, explicitly labeled, and attribution-backed. Historical KJV and Vulgate-study surfaces remain labeled because the older English is part of the learning object. Direct quotations should name their translation; plain chapter-and-verse references do not need a translation label. NIV remains a strong future readability option if licensed; a translation toggle is not yet shipped.
• Greek transliteration: SBL Handbook of Style. Greek is shown in Unicode, with a standard transliteration alongside (κήρυγμα → kerygma).
• Hebrew transliteration: SBL conventions. Hebrew shown in Unicode (right-to-left), with transliteration. Hebrew TTS is not currently available; the transliteration is the read-aloud form.
• Latin: classical (not ecclesiastical) pronunciation by default. Macron-marked. Henle Latin is the structural reference for grammar; Memoria Press and classical co-op vocabulary lists are the spine for everyday memory work.
• Greek primary, Hebrew secondary in Bible Saga: the New Testament is Greek scripture; the “detour” cards in the Travels of Paul adventure are primarily Greek. Hebrew detours appear where Acts itself quotes Hebrew or Aramaic (e.g., the voice on the Damascus road speaking in Hebrew per Acts 26:14).

✉️ Questions, Concerns, or Corrections

We're a small team (one Colorado homeschool family + collaborators) and we read every message. If you spot a factual error, a theological framing you disagree with, or a translation choice you'd like flagged, the fastest path is the in-app feedback button (every game has one). For broader curricular questions, email us via the About page.

We don't guarantee we'll change a position you disagree with — the framings on this page are intentional — but we do guarantee we'll read your message and respond.