Three general apporach to ethics the legalistic approach, the antinomian, the sitational approach
he did accept the rol of human reason in moral decision making, he felt that the approach to moality which followed natural law was to legalistic and that on some occsions rules had to take a second place to human need
Heavily influenced by Jesus' criticism of the phariees' legalism in the gospels.
if a rule has to be broken in order to follow the most loving course of action it is morally acceptable to break that rule 'the situationist follows a moral law or violaes it according to loves need'
He rejected an antinomian approach to morality
He felt that those who took a purely hedonistic approach to moral issues have too much moral freedom.
He developed a theory that was in between both legalism and antinomianism
Bible support for his theory 'love the lord god with all your heart and with all your sould' 'my command is this love each oter as i have loved you'
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