Philippe Mestrezat

Philippe Mestrezat (October 14, 1618 in Geneva – February 1, 1690, in Geneva) was a Genevan Calvinist minister and professor at Geneva.

Life

He studied theology at the Geneva Academy, and became a pastor in 1644.[1] He was nephew of Jean Mestrezat, pastor at Charenton.[2]

He was chosen as successor at Geneva to Alexander Morus; but in doctrinal terms shared the sympathy of Morus for the doctrines of the Saumur Academy.[3] His views were Amyraldist, and led him into conflict with the Company of Pastors.[1] In the debates leading up to the imposition of the Helvetic Consensus he tried to moderate the formulation applied in Geneva; but the other cantons objected, and threatened to boycott the Academy.[4]

Notes

1. (in French) Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse
2. Gerald Cerny, Theology, Politics, and Letters at the Crossroads of European Civilization: Jacques Basnage and the Baylean Huguenot refugees in the Dutch republic (1987), p. 22; Google Books.
3. Martin I. Klauber, Between Reformed Scholasticism and pan-Protestantism: Jean-Alphonse Turretin (1671-1737) and enlightened orthodoxy at the Academy of Geneva (1994), p. 31; Google Books.
4. Schaff-Herzog article on the Helvetic Consensus

Academic offices
Preceded by Théodore Tronchin Alexander Morus Antoine Léger	Chair of theology at the Genevan Academy 1649–1690 With: Théodore Tronchin (1649-1656) Antoine Léger (1649-1654) François Turrettini (1653-1687) Louis Tronchin (de) (1661-1690) Benedict Pictet (1686-1690)	Succeeded by Louis Tronchin (de) Benedict Pictet Bénédict Calandrini (de) (fr)