1. Situation Ethics Background

2. What Influenced Joseph Fletcher? Fletcher was influenced by a throw away comment made by a St Louis cab driver who said, Fletcher was influenced by a throw away comment made by a St Louis cab driver who said, “Sometimes you’ve just gotta put your principles to one side and do the right thing”. “Sometimes you’ve just gotta put your principles to one side and do the right thing”. Rules (either by duty or principles) aren’t the same thing as doing what is right. Rules (either by duty or principles) aren’t the same thing as doing what is right.

3. 1966 Sex and Morality Study This study found that people were turning away from the Church’s rules (legalism) and more towards antinomianism (the abandonment of any rules). The world was becoming more secular (non-religious) and people had stopped listening to the Church and their teachings on what was ethically right.

4. Fletchers Response Fletcher acknowledged these changes and sought an ethical solution which would bring people back towards making Christian moral decisions, but which didn’t have the doom and gloom associated with religion.

5. Define these words Agapé love Antinomian ethics Conscience Individualistic Intrinsically good Justice Legalistic ethics Personalism Relativism Pragmatism Consequentialist Teleological

6. What would a legalist, antinomian and situationist do? A teenage girl has become pregnant as a result of being raped by a close family member. She’s very poor and very young.