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    Condign merit is impossible between a creature and God. — Carmelics
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    Condign merit is impossible between a creature and God.

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    • 1.Condign merit requires that the lender and borrower share a common scale of dignity (dignitas) by which merit can be compared.
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    • 2.A creature's worth is entirely derived from God, while God's perfection is per se (self-grounded).
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    • 3.There is no common scale on which a creature's merit can be placed alongside God's perfect nature.
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    • 1.Scotus argues that God freely ordains (potentia ordinata) a system in which creature acts are accepted as genuinely meritorious by divine covenant.
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    • 2.If God's own decree establishes a proportionate relation between act and reward, the asymmetry of natures does not preclude real merit within that ordained order.
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    • 3.A merit-relation grounded in divine institution rather than intrinsic dignity satisfies the condign requirement without demanding ontological parity between creature and Creator.
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    • 1.Aquinas holds that charity (caritas infusa) elevates human acts to a supernatural order formally proportionate to the beatific end, not merely to creaturely nature.
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    • 2.If the operative principle of the meritorious act is divine charity itself acting in and through the creature, the act's dignity is derived from God's own nature rather than from the creature's finite worth.
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    • 3.The supporting argument's premise that a creature's worth is entirely finite therefore misidentifies the proximate source of condign merit in the graced agent.
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    With any instance of lending, Wyclif explains, the lender seeks assurance that the borrower truly deserves what is to be lent. Human desert of the dominium they are lent is a matter of some complexity involving examination of the theological concept of grace. When a temporal lord lends his subject according to the subject's worthiness, the subject's merit is commensurable with the lord's, and the mutual agreement defining the loan can be made according to the respective merit of each party. The
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