Christians have different beliefs and approaches when it comes to ethical decision making. These include:

• divine command theory
• moral absolutism
• moral relativism
• situation ethics

Approaches to decision-making

There are a variety of approaches to decision making and each approach has its positives and negatives.

There are two different types of theories:

• deontological theory, which focuses on the actions themselves being right or wrong
• teleological theory, which focuses on the consequences or outcomes of the actions being classed as right or wrong