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

^ ^a ^b (in French) Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ 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)