Human Nature in Its Fourfold State
Augustine of Hippo’s four figured states
- able to sin (posse peccare),
- not able not to sin (non posse non peccare),
- able not to sin (posse non peccare),
- unable to sin (non posse peccare).
Thomas Boston’s Human Nature in Its Fourfold State
- The State of Innocence
- The State of Nature
- The State of Grace
- The Eternal State