Tyconius: Le Livre des Règles. Introduced and translated by Jean-Marc Vercruysse. Pp. 410. (Sources Chrétiennes, 488.) Paris: Cerf, 2004. isbn 2 204 07739 9. Paper €48
‘A certain Tyconius, who wrote irrefutably against the Donatists despite being a Donatist, … produced a book that he called the Liber Regularum because in it he discussed seven rules to open up the secrets of the Holy Scriptures as though with seven keys.’ Augustine (De doctrina Christiana 3.92–133)...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2006
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2006, Volume: 57, Issue: 1, Pages: 320-322 |
| Review of: | Le livre des règles (Paris : Éd. du Cerf, 2004) (Winterbottom, Michael)
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| Further subjects: | B
Book review
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| Summary: | ‘A certain Tyconius, who wrote irrefutably against the Donatists despite being a Donatist, … produced a book that he called the Liber Regularum because in it he discussed seven rules to open up the secrets of the Holy Scriptures as though with seven keys.’ Augustine (De doctrina Christiana 3.92–133) proceeded to summarize those rules, sometimes giving Tyconius’ own examples, sometimes applying them for himself to other biblical material. Vercruysse, in this exemplary new edition, argues (pp. 385–9) that Augustine, knowingly or not, misrepresented Tyconius’ position. And indeed the book is itself in much need of interpretation, which Vercruysse goes a long way towards satisfying. We have hitherto had to turn, for modern information, to the plain text and translation of W. S. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flj062 |