Peter Dens (12 September 169015 February 1775) was a Flemish Roman Catholic theologian. Biography Dens was born at Boom near Antwerp. Most of his life was spent in the archiepiscopal college of Mechelen, where he was for twelve years reader in theology and for forty president. His great work was the Theologia moralis et dogmatica, a compendium in catechetical form of Roman Catholic doctrine and ethics which has been much used as a students textbook. References Further reading 18th-century Roman Catholic theologians 1690 births 1775 deaths People from Boom, Belgium People of the Austrian Netherlands