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(Tichonius; Ticonius; Tyconius; fl. ca. 370/390). Donatist; opposed rebaptism of those who became Donatists; held that the ch. included good and bad. Works include a book on hermeneutics: Liber de septem regulis.

(ca. 1497/1500–1572). Eng. organist and composer; birthplace unknown, perhaps East Anglia; organist to Chapel Royal under Elizabeth* I. Tr. 1st half of Acts into Eng. verse set to music, some of which became hymn tunes, e.g., Windsor.

(1783–1858). Cong. cleric; b. Middle-bury, Connecticut; educ. Yale Coll., New Haven, Connecticut Pastor South Britain, Connecticut, 1808–22; Portland, Maine, 1828–33. Pres. Dartmouth Coll., Hanover, New Hampshire, 1822–28; opposed New* Haven Theol., esp. as taught by N. W. Taylor*; prof. and pres. Theol. Institute of Connecticut, 1833/34–57 (founded at East Windsor, Connecticut, to offset the influence of New Haven Theol.; moved to Hartford 1865; reinc. 1913 as part of Hartford Sem. Foundation); his theol. became known as Tylerism.

See Primitive Religion.

(Tindal[e]; ca. 1483/95 [most probably ca. 1494]–1536). B. “about the borders of Wales,” probably Gloucestershire (or Monmouthshire?), perhaps in the hundred of Berkeley (at Stinchcombe? or North Nibley?); educ. Oxford and Cambridge; to the Continent 1524 on failing to receive support for Bible tr. from C Tunstall*; was at Hamburg, Wittenberg, Cologne, and Marburg, but spent most of his remaining yrs. at Antwerp; influenced by M. Luther* but Zwinglian on the Lord's Supper; defended Reformation theol. against T. More*; strangled and burned near Brussels. Tr. NT and parts of the OT, including Pentateuch and Jon. See also Bible Versions, L 1–7; England, B 2. NST

R. Demaus, William Tyndale, rev. R. Lovett (London, 1886); J. F. Mozley, William Tyndale (London, 1937).

(1820–93). Brit. physicist and natural philos.; b. Leighlin Bridge, County Carlow, Ireland; educ. Marburg, Ger.; prof. Royal Institution, London; visited Switz. often to study glaciers and meteorological conditions; defended determinism* and agnosticism; showed that the blue in the sky is due to fine particles in the air. See also Metaphysical Society, The.

See Exegesis, 8.

See Geography, Christian, 6.

See Prosper of Aquitaine.

(1861–1909). B. Dublin, Ireland; raised Calvinist; RC 1879; Jesuit 1880; denied inerrancy of RC theol.; expelled from Jesuits 1906. Works include Christianity at the Cross-Roads. See also Modernism, 1.