Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Christianity Moral Decision Making
- Situation Ethics
- The idea that Christians
should base moral decisions
on what is the most loving
thing to do.
- Jesus healed on the
day of the Sabbath
- In modern life, Situation
ethics plays a big part in
debate about freedom of
speech, abortion, and
euthanasia
- Summary: Christians who
follow situation ethics believe
that all they need when faced
with a moral decision is work
out what is the most loving
thing to do.
- Weakness: there is no
right or wrong decision,
however different people
have different ideas
- Strength: The decision is made in
the best interests of a person
- Conscience
- An inner feeling of
the rightness or
wrongness of an
action
- Summary: Many Christians think conscience is
the way God speaks to Christians today and so
is the main guide for making moral decisions.
- Christians believe God talks to them. Christians
always follow the word of God. If they believe God
is their conscience, they should choose to follow it.
- The Church says Christians should
always follow the word of God.
- The teachings of the Bible and the Church do not
come directly from God. Conscience is God speaking
directly to individuals and should be followed.
- Bible
- The holy book of Christians.
- The word of God is dicted by God in the bible.
- The bible has Jesus' teachings on how
to live, so it has the authority of God.
- The bible contains things like
the sermon of the Mount.
- It records events in the life of Jesus, so
it teaches us what Jesus would do.
- The bible is authenticated by
God so God would approve.
- Chuch
- The community of Christians.
- Church is the body of Christ.
- God speaks to the world
through the Church.
- If Christians made their own
decisions, there would be no set rules.
- The Church gives guidance.
- Authority of the Church comes from the
Magesterium which will have modern ideas.