Christian morality/ ethics

• Fletcher looked at the failure of Natural Moral Law ethics to address new ethical issues: biology, genetics and neuroscience
• Believed that the 2 world wars, rise in divorce rates, the Big Bang theory and the use of contraceptives all showed Natural Moral Law's failures
• Fletcher agreed with neither Catholic moral law nor Protestant Divine Command Theory
• Fletcher's ethics is teleological or situation based and does not focus on rules
• Christian living for Fletcher is personalistic and contextual