Joseph Fletcher and situation ethics

By Rod Benson  In 1966, American episcopal moral theologian Joseph Fletcher published a popular book titled, Situation Ethics: The New Morality. In the book he advocated a โ€˜newโ€™ approach to Christian ethics and moral decision-making which occupied a middle way between the two extremes of legalism and antinomianism.  For Fletcher, this approach, labelled โ€˜situationism,โ€™ was …