Situation Ethics

Ethics

________ is about providing guidance for real world situations so these solutions must be practiced and work.

Jesus

________ put love first; he rejected the Torah and traditions of the time.

Golden Rule

Matthew 7: 12- The ________= do to others what you would have them do to you.

situationist

The ________ follows a moral law or violates it according to loves need- "Fletcher.

Agape love

________ is the guiding principle which is unexceptionable.

Loves decisions

________ are made situationally, not prescriptively.

"Love one another as I have loved you" John 13

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1 Corinthians 13

St Paul describes what agape love is

The solution to a moral dilemma must be practical

it must work and it must be achievable

Agape is relationship

centred, not abstract or distant

The ruling norm of christian decision is love

nothing else

"Love thy neighbour"

new testament agape love