Christian Ethics Summary Starter – In pairs, using the video, try to describe to your partner (who is not facing the screen) the different ways Christians might make moral decisions Reading – Mayled p119-135 Reading – Applied topics LO s To compare and understand the different strands of Christian ethics   To evaluate what a Christian might do in a given number of scenarios

How a Christian might decide what to do CE Summary How a Christian might decide what to do

Diagrammatic Comparison Divine Command Theory Situation Ethics Natrual Law Extension – Add WWJD.. In pairs

Scenarios (MacIntyre’s Torment) For each scenario, discuss and evaluate what a divine command theorist, a natural law theorist and a situation ethicist might do and WHY!

Dilemma 1 You are an inmate in a concentration camp. A sadistic guard is about to hang your son who tried to escape and wants you to pull the chair from underneath him. He says that if you don’t he will not only kill your son but some other innocent inmate as well. You don’t have any doubt that he means what he says. What should you do?

Dilemma 2 A pregnant woman leading a group of people out of a cave on a coast is stuck in the mouth of that cave. In a short time high tide will be upon them, and unless she is unstuck, they will all be drowned except the woman, whose head is out of the cave. Fortunately, (or unfortunately,) someone has with him a stick of dynamite. There seems no way to get the pregnant woman loose without using the dynamite which will inevitably kill her; but if they do not use it everyone will drown.

Dilemma 3 In the school canteen, you see a fellow pupil with whom you are acquainted steal a sandwich from the lunchbox of a year 7 pupil whilst he is not looking and walk off. This person is unlikely to want to return the item in your opinion.