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Bibliography: Sources for a life are found in his own work last mentioned above. The subject is treated in the Geschichte der Dogmatik by W. Gass, ii. 183, Berlin, 1S57, and in G. Frank's Geschichte der Theologie, ii. 226, Leipsic, 1865. Consult also J. Beste, Geschichte der braunschweigischen Landeskirche, pp. 334-346, Wolfenbuttel, 1889.
FABRICIUS, JOHANN ALBERT: German theologian and bibliographer; b. at Leipsic Nov. 11, 1668; d. at Hamburg Apr. 3, 1736. He studied theology, philology, philosophy, and medicine in Leipsic, and in 1693 removed to Hamburg, where he assisted Johann Friedrich Mayer, the chief pastor of the city. Six years later he was appointed professor of ethics and rhetoric at the gymnasium, and from 1708 to 1711 was also rector of the Johann eum. He possessed a library of some 32,000 volumes, and was an extremely prolific writer. Several of his works are still unsuperseded. Among his bibliographical writings special mention may be made of the following: Bibliotheca latina (Hamburg, 1697; best edition by J. A. Ernesti, 3 vols., Leipsic, 1773-74); Bibliotheca grwca (14 vols., Hamburg, 1705-2S; best edition, though incomplete, by G. C. Harless, 1vols., 1790-1809); Bibliographia antiquaria (1713);
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Bibliotheca ccclesiastica (171S); and Bibliolheca lalina media' et infimw at at is (5 vols., 1734-36; completed by J. D. Mansi, 6 vols., Padua, 1754). In theology his work is antiquated, although mention may still be made of his Hydrotheologie (1730) and Pyrotkeologie (1732), written to show the goodness of God in creating water and fire; as well as of the Centifolium Lutheranum (2 vols., 1728-30), a somewhat crude bibliography of Luther and the Reformation, and of the Salutaris lux Evangelii toti orbi exoriens (1731), with a valuable list of over 4,000 bishoprics. He likewise published a number of classical authors, but his only editions of permanent value were his Codex apocryphus Novi Testamenti (2 vols., 1703; enlarged, 1719) and his Codex pseudepigraphus Veteris Testamenti (1713; enlarged, 2 vols., 1722-23), both of which are still indispensable in a study of their subjects. Bibliography: S. Reimarus, De vita et scriptis J. A. Fabricii, Hamburg, 1737; KL, iv. 1191-92.
FACULTIES : The term applied in canon law to powers conferred by an ecclesiastical superior upon a subordinate. The most important are the papal faculties. These are conferred on missionaries for certain cases of dispensation and absolution, especially on the heads of missionary orders ; since the sixteenth century on papal nuncios in countries where, as in Germany, the Roman Catholic Church is endeavoring to recover her former footing ; and on the bishops and archbishops, who are regarded as missionaries. These powers have always been limited by a regard to the special needs of the region over which they are to be exercised. Those which are conferred upon bishops in certain countries are usually good for a period of five years (hence called facilitates quinquennales), and are normally renewed on their expiration. Besides these traditional faculties, there are certain special ones which may be regarded as an extension of them, allowing archbishops and bishops to reduce masses on a foundation, to designate certain altars as privileged, and to nominate synodal examiners. All these faculties are revocable at the will of the people. They are attached to the person of the bishop in respect of his connection with a particular diocese, and terminate by his death or removal from the particular office, but not by the death of the pope who granted them. The bishops in their turn can confer faculties upon their clergy, especially deans and vicars-general, to perform certain functions belonging to the ordinary jurisdiction of the bishop (e.g., absolution in cases reserved to the bishop); and they can also, when this right has been expressly given, subdelegate the exercise of the powers conferred on them in their facultates quinquennales to such officials. (P. HiNscHiusf.)
Bibliography; O. Mejer, Die Propaganda, ihre Provinzen und ihr Rechl, i. 39 sqq., ii. 201 sqq., Gottingen. 1852; P. Hinschius, Kirchenrecht, iii. 807 sqq., Berlin, 1882; N. Nilles, in ZKT, xv (1891), 550; A. Konings, Commentatio in facultates apostolicas, New York, 1893.
FACUNDUS OF HERMIANE: Bishop of Hermiane, in the North African province of Byzacena; d. after 571. He belonged to the leaders of the anti-imperial opposition in the so-called Three Chapter Controversy (q.v.) and in 548 submitted
to Justinian a work in twelve books Pro defensione trium capitulorum, in which he sought mainly to prove that the emperor's design of condemning the Antiochian theology might seriously impair the authority of the Council of Chalcedon. A second treatise, Liber contra Mocianum scholasticxim , in opposition to the judicatum by which Pope Vigilius had condemned the Three Chapters, shows that he was already estranged from Rome, yet the date of composition is uncertain. A third work is the Epistola fidei catholicoz in defensione trium capitulorum. The three treatises are in MPL, lxvii. 521- 878, and in A. Gallandi, Bibliotheca, xi. 663-821.
G. Kruger.
Bibliography: A. Harnack, TLZ, v (1880), 632-635; H. Kihn, Theodor von M opsuestia, pp. 50-51, Freiburg, 1880; O. Bardenhewer, Patrologie, pp. 562-563, ib. 1901; DCB, ii. 444-445.
FAGIUS, fa'gi-us (PHAGIUS, BUCHLEIN), PAULUS: German theologian; b. at Rheinzabern (9 m. s.e. of Landau), Rhenish Bavaria, 1504; d. at Cambridge, England, Nov. 13, 1549. He studied at Heidelberg (1515) and at Strasburg (1522), where Capito taught him Hebrew; he became rector of the school at Isny, 1527; was a student of theology at Strasburg, 1535; returned as Evangelical pastor to Isny, 1537, and became pupil in Hebrew of Elias Levita; he succeeded Capito as pastor and theological professor in Strasburg, 1542. Violently opposed to the Interim when it was introduced (1549), he accepted Cranmer's invitation to come to England and became professor of Hebrew at Cambridge and soon died of a fever. Under Queen Mary his and Butzer's bones were exhumed and burned (Feb. 6, 1557) and their university honors were taken from them; but Queen Elizabeth ordered that the university formally restore to them their honors (July 22, 1560; cf. Foxe, Arts and Monuments, ed. Townsend, viii. 282-295, and A brief Treatise concerning the Burning of Bucer and Phagius with their Restitution, London, 1562). Fagius had a great reputation as a Hebrew scholar and his publications are upon Old Testament exegesis and Hebrew philology. In the bibliography of his writings in La France protestante, iii. 71 sqq., also in Strype's Memorials of Archbishop Cranmer, p. 845, twenty-three works are cited, but none has any present interest. Bibliography: An account of his life is contained in the Historia de vita Buceri, Strasburg, 1562. Consult: Schaffer, Paul Fagius, der zweite evangelische Prediger am Jungen St. Peter in Strassburg, Strasburg, 1877; ADB, vol. vi.; DNB, xviii. 120.
FAGNANI, fa"nya"ni, CHARLES PROSPERO:
Presbyterian; b. in New York City Oct. 29, 1854. He was graduated at the College of the City of New York in 1873, Columbia College Law School in 1875, and Union Theological Seminary in 1882. He taught in the public schools of New York 1873- 1 879, and was chapel minister of Grace Mission of the Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church 1882-85 and pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church, Yonkers, N. Y., 1885-86. The five years following were spent in Europe, and in 1891 he was appointed instructor in Harvard Divinity School, but was unable to accept on account of ill health. Since
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