{"id":53760,"date":"2016-03-19T17:09:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T17:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/albert_mohler-the_withering_of_vice_and_the_sexual_revolution\/"},"modified":"2016-03-19T17:09:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T17:09:37","slug":"albert_mohler-the_withering_of_vice_and_the_sexual_revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53760","title":{"rendered":"Albert Mohler&#8211;The Withering of Vice and the Sexual Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yet, even as many Christian churches continued to maintain the clear teachings of Scripture, and even as many pastors and theologians defended the Christian moral tradition and biblical authority, there were those within institutional Christianity who did everything possible to join the sexual revolution. The sexual revolutionaries found great assistance in the form of Joseph Fletcher and his book, Situation Ethics, published in 1966. Fletcher, who at one time was professor of Christian Social Ethics at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts and the dean of St. Paul\u2019s Episcopal Cathedral in Cincinnati, argued for a new understanding of Christian ethics that he called \u201csituation ethics.\u201d\u009d According to Fletcher, \u201cThe situationist enters into every decision-making situation fully armed with the ethical maxims of his community and its heritage, and he treats them with respect as illuminators of his problems. Just the same he is prepared in any situation to compromise them or set them aside in the situation if love seems better served by doing so.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertmohler.com\/2016\/03\/15\/the-withering-of-vice-and-the-sexual-revolution\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet, even as many Christian churches continued to maintain the clear teachings of Scripture, and even as many pastors and theologians defended the Christian moral tradition and biblical authority, there were those within institutional Christianity who did everything possible to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53760\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,175,168,104,133,96,98,129,108,95,112,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-history","category-life-ethics","category-marriage-family","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology","category-sexuality","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}