1. Fletcher’s 10 principles
Learning objective:
To understand how Fletcher used the bible to support his theory
To know Fletcher’s 10 key principles for situation ethics
Key Words

2. Legalism is… Antinomianism is… Situation ethics is…

3. The Law of Love
Fletcher used New Testament dialogues between Jesus and the Pharisees as an illustration of old versus new morality.
Pharisees = old morality (legalistic)
Jesus = new morality

4. Jesus and the new morality
Situation ethics as the only ethic for
‘man come of age’.
What does this mean?
Freedom and responsibility of the individual to act.
Authority and legal systems (the inflexibility of rules) was being called into question.
Discuss…
Did Jesus condone the breaking of the law?
Complete ‘Situation Ethics and Christian Ethics’ worksheet.

5. Green book 167-168, Bowie p.102-4 Blue book 177-180
Research either the four propositions or the six fundamental principles (one side of the sheet).
Green book , Bowie p Blue book
The Four Presuppositions
of Situation Ethics
The six
fundamental principles

6. Teach what you have learnt
Link up with someone who has looked at the other list.
Take it in turns to explain what you have learnt so that they understand
Use their notes, along with their explanation, to complete the other grid for yourself
Everyone should finish with notes on all ten principles

7. Learning Styles
Which type of learner are you?

8. V
isual A
uditory K
inesthetic

9. Let’s have a look at that!
Show Me!
Visual learners
Let’s have a look at that!
Learn best from information they
see or read.
Examples: illustrations, pictures, diagrams,
demonstrations, displays, handouts, films and
flip-charts.
Able to perform a new task after reading the instructions or watching others doing the task first.
Work by reading lists and written
directions.

10. Auditory learners Tell me! Let’s talk it over!
Prefer to learn by listening
and often mentally recall the words
they have heard.
Absorb spoken and heard
material easily and like being
involved in aural questioning
rather than reading materials.
Prefer listening to lectures,
stories and songs, Enjoy variations in
rhythm, pitch and voice inflection.
Prefer discussing and
communicating with other
classmates.

11. Kinesthetic learners Let me try! How do you feel?
Acquire their knowledge best
by doing and moving.
Love moving around frequently
and building things with their hands.
Able to perform a new task
best by going ahead and
trying it out, learning as
they go.
Prefer experiments and
hands-on experience.

12. TASK
Your task is to memorise the 10 principles. Choose your learning style and organise yourselves into 3 groups, one for each style.

13. TASK
Visual – draw a scene on A3 paper where each feature relates to one principle Auditory – write a song/rhyming poem the takes you through the 10 principles Kinaesthetic –use your body to link the principles to different parts or movements, e.g. pragmatism = hands, relativism = weighing up movement etc.

14. Plenary
Demonstrate your method to the rest of the group How effective was the ‘revision’ technique that your group used? Would you have preferred to have used another method?

15. Homework
Read the extract from ‘Briefly: Fletcher’s situation ethics’ by David Mills Daniel
P.1-30