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FAULKNER, JOHN ALFRED : Methodist Episcopalian; b. at Grand Pre, N. S., July 14, 1857 He was graduated at Acadia College, Wolfville, N. S., in 1878 and at Drew Theological Seminary in 1881, supplementing his studies at Andover Theological Seminary and the universities of Leipsic and Bonn. He entered the Methodist Episcopal ministry in 1883 and held pastorates at Beach Lake, Pa. (1883-84), Yatesville, Pa. (1884-85), Park Place, Scranton, Pa. (1885-87), Taylor, Pa. (1887-92), Great Bend, Pa. (1892-94), and Chenango Street, Binghamton, N. Y. (1894-97). Since 1897 he has been professor of historical theology in Drew Theological Seminary. He has written The Methodists (New York, 1903), Cyprian (Cincinnati, O., 1906), and Erasmus (1908).
FAUNCE, WILLIAM HERBERT PERRY: Baptist; b. at Worcester, Mass., Jan. 15, 1859. He was graduated at Brown University in 1880 and Newton Theological Institution in 1884. He was instructor in mathematics in Brown University 1881-82, and was pastor of the State Street Baptist Church, Springfield, Mass., 1884-89 and of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, New York City, 1889-99. Since 1899 he has been president of Brown University. He was elected president of the Religious Education Association in 1906. He lectured before the Divinity School of the University of Chicago in 1898-99 and has been a resident preacher at Harvard University. He has written Roger Williams and his Doctrine of Soul Liberty (Boston, 1902).
FAUSSET, ANDREW ROBERT: Church of England; b. near Enniskillen (75 m. w.s.w. of Belfast), county Fermanagh, Ireland, Oct. 13, 1821. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin (B.A., 1843), was ordered deacon in 1847, and ordained priest in 1848, and was curate of Bishop Middleham, Durham, 1847-59. Since 1859 he has been rector of St. Cuthbert's, York, and has been canon of York Minster since 1885. He was chaplain at Bex, Switzerland, in 1870 and at St. Goar on the Rhine in 1873. In theology he belongs to the Evangelical school of the Church of England. He has written Scripture and the Prayer Book in Harmony (London, 1854); Horce Psalmicos (1877); The Englishman's Critical and Expository Cyclopaedia (London, 1878); The Church and World (1878); The Millennium (1880); The Signs of the Times (1881); Prophecy a Sure Light (1882); The Latter Rain (1883); True Science Confirming Genesis (1884); The Personal Antichrist (1884) ; Spiritualism (1885); Critical and Expository Commentary on the Book of Judges (1885); and Guide to the Study of the Book of Common Prayer (1894). He has edited various classical authors as well as the English translation of J. A. Bengel's Gnomon Novi Testammti (5 vols., Edinburgh, 1857-58), and A. R. Vinet's Homiletique (London, 1858), and wrote the second and fourth volumes of The Critical and Explanatory Pocket Bible (4 vols., Glasgow, 1862), and the third, fourth, and sixth volumes of the Critical, Experimental, and Practical Commentary (6 vols., London, 1871).
FAUSTINUS: Presbyter at Rome under Pope Liberius (352-366), prominent in the Luciferian
agitation (see Lucifer of Calaris and the Luciferians). Conjointly with the otherwise unknown presbyter Marcellinus, he delivered to the emperor Theodosius at Constantinople in 383 or 384 a document (Libellus precum ad imperatores) entitled De confessione verce fidei et ostentatione sacra communionis et persecutione adversantium mritatis (MPL, xiii. 83-107; CSEL, xxxv. 5-44), wherein he defended the Luciferians and entreated the emperor for protection against their adversaries. His deductions are largely overdrawn and partizan. The prwfaho to this memorial is not the work of Faustinus, but of an Ursinian (see Ursintjs, Antipope). Another work by Faustinus is the unimportant tract, De trinitate sive fidei adversus Arianos (MPL, xiii. 37-80).
G. Kruger.
Bibliography: Gennadius, De vir. ill., chap, xvi.; Isidore of Spain, De vir. ill., chap. xiv. ; G. Kruger, Lucifer von Calaris, pp. 62-63, 82-86, 94 sqq., Leipsic, 1886; G. Rauschen, JahrbiXcher der christlichen Kirche unter Theodosius, pp. 140, 199-200, Freiburg, 1897; DCB, ii. 466.
FAUSTUS OF MILEVE. See Manicheans, § 14.
FAUSTUS OF RIEZ (Lat. Reji ; Faustus Rejensis) : Prominent representative of Semi-Pelagianism in the south of Gaul; b. between 405 and 410; d. toward the end of the fifth century. He was probably of British origin, according to the positive assertions of Avitus and Sidonius; against this there is nothing but the description of him as a Gaul by men at a distance like Life. Possessor and Facundus. He received a good philosophical education, and knew not a little of the Scriptures, but he was neither an original thinker nor a thorough theologian. At an early age he entered the monastery of Lerins (q.v.), then in a very flourishing state under Abbot Maximus, whom he succeeded in 433. He kept his monks in strict discipline, and defended the interests of his monastery against the bishop of the diocese, Theodore of Frejus, winning his case when it came before a synod held by the metropolitan Ravennius (the Third Synod of Aries, probably in 456). He was subsequently chosen bishop of Riez (in Basses Alpes, 50 m. n.e. of Marseilles), not later than 462, in which year he appears in Rome as a bishop; the date of his election is probably between 458 and 460. He continued to distinguish himself by his ascetic life, and became known as a preacher. A synod was held at Aries c. 475 to deal with the case of Lucidus, a teacher of thoroughgoing predestinarianism, and another one soon after at Lyons. Acting at the request of these synods, Faustus succeeded in inducing Lucidus to sign a fairly complete retractation, and also wrote a large work De gratia in which he took a Semi- Pelagian position. He was also a prominent figure in the Christological and Pneumatological controversies of his day. In 474, with other bishops, he conducted negotiations in the emperor's name with Euric, king of the Visigoths, and later, probably by Euric 's conquests, was driven into an exile which apparently terminated in the year of Euric's death, 485. His own death probably followed from five to ten years later. The Church of his province
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