Ticonius, also spelled Tyconius or Tychonius (active 370–390 AD), was a major theologian of 4th-century North African Latin Church.
Life and doctrine
Ticonius subscribed to a milder form of Donatism than
Parmenianus, admitting a church outside his own sect and rejecting the
rebaptism of Catholics. Parmenianus wrote a letter against him, quoted by Augustine.
[.][ Patrologia Latina, XVIII, 33.]
He also defended the Nicene doctrine of the homoousios, stating:
The main source on Ticonius is Gennadius:[.]
This gives 379–423 AD as extreme dates of his life.
Works
Ticonius's best known work was his commentary on the
Revelation, which, like
Origen, he interpreted almost entirely in a spiritual sense. He asserted that the book depicts the spiritual controversy over the kingdom of God. This work is lost, but some essential parts survive as quotes in
Augustine,
Primasius,
Bede,
[ Explanatio apocalpsis; P.L., XCIII, 130–32.] and Beatus of Liébana's
Commentary on the Apocalypse.
To outline his general conceptions, he laid down his Seven Rules, quoted and explained by Augustine in De doctrina christiana.[III, 30–37; P.L., XXIV, 81–90.] Augustine's authority gave them great importance for nearly a thousand years in the West.
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EarlyChurch.org.uk. "Tyconius (fl. 370 - 390)". Retrieved March 12, 2006.
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Erickson, Millard J. (1998). Christian Theology (2nd ed.) p. 1213.
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Tyconius. Le Livre des Regles. Introduced and translated by Jean-Marc Vercruyse. Paris: Cerf, 2004, Pp. 410 (Sources Chretiennes, 488).
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Tyconius. The Book of Rules. Trans. William S. Babcock. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989.
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Tyconius. "The Book of Rules, I–III." In Biblical Interpretation in the Early Church. Trans. K. Froehlich, 104–32. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1985.
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