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Situation ethics - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Jesus' summary of the law is 'love God' and 'love your neighbour'
      - Jesus often opposed the legalism of the pharisees
      - 'by this everyone will know that you're my disciples, if you have love for one another' - JC
    - - Fletcher is too selective
      - JC tells disciples that if they love him they are to obey his commandments
      - SE had been rejected by the Christian church
      - Bishop John Robinson - 'there is no one ethical system that can claim to be Christian'
      - Pope Pius XII - rejected situation ethics as it opposes God's revealed scripture
      - paul rejects 'do evil so that good may come' - no acceptance of the end justifies the means -> Fletcher 'love is the only means'