Petrus van Mastricht

Petrus (or Peter or Pieter) van Mastricht (or Maastricht) (November 1630 – February 9, 1706) was a Reformed theologian. He is best known for his work Theoretico-practica theologia.

Life

He was born in Cologne to Thomas Schoring and Jeanne le Plancque; his parents had fled from Maastricht during the Dutch revolt. He changed his family name to "van Mastricht" on moving to Cologne. Petrus occasionally used the Latinized pseudonym Scheuneneus.

Johannes Hoornbeeck was Mastricht's pastor from 1639 to 1643 and his teacher at the University of Utrecht starting in 1647, along with Gisbertus Voetius and others. From 1650 to 1652 he took a tour of study at Leiden University, the University of Heidelberg and possibly Oxford. Contra Beckerum. 1692 Cartesianismi gangraena insanabilis. 1680

Legacy

The American theological scholar Jonathan Edwards regarded Mastricht highly. He said of Mastricht's magnus opus, "much better than Turretin or any other book in the world, excepting the Bible, in my opinion.". Up until that time Francis Turretin was the premier Reformed Christianity academic and polemic author.