'''Supererogation''' (Late Lat. ''supererogatio'', payment beyond what is due or asked, from ''super'', beyond, ''eragare'', to pay out, expend, ex, out, ''rogare'', to ask) is the performance of more than is asked for, the action of doing more than duty requires. In the theology of the Roman_Catholic_Church, "works of supererogation" are those which are performed beyond what is required by God. For example, in 1 Corinthians 7, Paul says that while everyone is free to marry, it is better to refrain from marriage and remain celibate in order to better serve God. The Church_of_England denies the doctrine of supererogation in the fourteenth of the Thirty-Nine_Articles. ==External links== *Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry ---- {{1911}}