Welcome to Our Reading Religious Affections Study Guide and Homeschool Curriculum

Course Outline for Our Reading Religious Affections Study Guide and Homeschool Bible Curriculum

The self-paced comprehensive Religious Affections study guide divides this advanced Bible study course into twenty units.

• Week 1: Introduction to Jonathan and Sarah Edwards
• Week 2: The Context and Occasion of The Religious Affections: The Great Awakening
• Week 3: Definition, Nature, Importance, and Scripture Support of Religious Affections
• Week 4: Uncertain Signs I-III
• Week 5: Uncertain Signs IV-VII
• Week 6: Uncertain Signs VIII-X
• Week 7: Uncertain Sign XI
• Week 8: Uncertain Sign XII
• Week 9: True Sign I
• Week 10: True Sign II
• Week 11: True Sign III
• Week 12: True Sign IV
• Week 13: True Sign V
• Week 14: True Sign VI
• Week 15: True Signs VII-VIII
• Week 16: True Signs IX-XI
• Week 17: True Sign XII (Part One)
• Week 18: True Sign XII (Part Two)
• Week 19: True Sign XII (Part Three)
• Week 20: True Sign XII (Part Four)

More About Our Reading Religious Affections Study Guide and Homeschool Bible Curriculum

Contemporary readers unfamiliar with Edwards’ 18th Century English have found Religious Affections an arduous read. Yet, the lesson designer believes that the greater difficulty reading Edwards is following the comprehensive and exacting nature of his arguments. Edwards’ definitions and explanations are meticulous and exhaustive, his sentences are long and weighty, while the logic of a single point can carry on for pages. Few contemporary readers are trained to think as carefully as 18th Century theologians, let alone one as profound as Edwards. His arguments are carefully and brilliantly crafted, but they require time and effort to grasp.

The following summary and outline of Edwards’ monumental classic was developed for application to a teaching setting to help address this particular need. The logic, flow, and structure of Edwards’ arguments are more easily seen in the format of a detailed outline. So designed, the study guide is intended to supplement, not replace, the reading of Religious Affections. Edwards chose his words carefully, so any summary or abridgment of his words will necessarily diminish the brilliance of his argumentation. Thus, Dr. Biehl hopes that this study guide will provide an additional aid to encourage the direct study of Religious Affections.

The Religious Affections study guide is divided into twenty teaching modules, with discussion questions following each module. As Edwards’ theological insights are as applicable today as they were at the time of its initial publication in 1746, the discussion questions are designed to help teachers and high school students apply them to their own heart and to contemporary Christianity in general. Scripture references are sometimes written out to expedite the pace of the study, while references listed without text allow teachers and high school students to look up verses to interact with their own Bibles as part of the study.

Quotations in the course study guide are taken from the Banner of Truth version of Religious Affections, but are all cross referenced to the Yale edition. Thus, the study guide can be used with either the Banner of Truth or Yale versions.

This homeschool Bible course for teens does not include gradable quizzes or tests. It includes numerous study questions that can be graded, if desired.

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