Jack Barentsen

Jack Barentsen is married and has two daughters and a son-in-law. He studied physics, philosophy and theology in the US, and moved back to his native country the Netherlands in 1988 as pastor and church planter. Working with new church plants provided ample opportunity to learn about leadership development, learning that continued as Jack started teaching at the ETF. It seemed a natural fit to research leadership development in early Christianity through the lens of modern leadership theory, to complement traditional theological categories. Currently, Jack investigates religious leadership practice as assiociate professor and chairman of Practical Theology and as senior researcher of the Institute for Leadership and Ethics at the ETF.