About Author: Dave Reinhardt

Before making his way to St Andrews, Dave played the part of a peasant and a street sweep at a Renaissance Festival and Walt Disney World respectively. However, his interest in performance and communication were also put to use for over a decade as a corporate communications trainer in Charlotte, NC where he and his wife, Carrie, lived before moving overseas. Since then, they’ve welcomed their daughter Molly into the world and Dave completed his M.Litt in Theology, Imagination, and the Arts at St Andrews. At the moment he’s busy researching the theological significance of embodied expression in pursuit of a PhD from St Andrews.

Posts by Dave Reinhardt

  • Last week the BBC reported on an experimental venture of the European Commission called ‘beaming’.[1]  The idea is this: given the time, expense, and environmental impact of business, medical, and other types of travel, is it possible to replace the...

    Present and accounted for?

    Last week the BBC reported on an experimental venture of the European Commission called ‘beaming’.[1]  The idea is this: given the time, expense, and environmental impact of business, medical, and other types of travel, is it possible to replace the...

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  • At what point can a work of theatre no longer be called a work of theatre? While definitions may be elusive (springing as they do from ever-changing experience), they serve a useful function: setting one thing apart from another.  Sometimes...

    Virtually Present: Theatre, Embodiment, and the Incarnation

    At what point can a work of theatre no longer be called a work of theatre? While definitions may be elusive (springing as they do from ever-changing experience), they serve a useful function: setting one thing apart from another.  Sometimes...

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  • ‘That’s nothing but a bunch of rhetoric!’  These words are often spoken dismissively after political stump speeches by those who deem them insincere at best, deceptive at worst.  But how often are they uttered after a sermon?  People may not...

    A Bunch of Rhetoric: Rhetoric and Revelation

    ‘That’s nothing but a bunch of rhetoric!’  These words are often spoken dismissively after political stump speeches by those who deem them insincere at best, deceptive at worst.  But how often are they uttered after a sermon?  People may not...

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  • The arts have often found an uneasy place in the area of mission.  When so many issues are at stake in mission work, how can we justify spending time on the arts?  Can the arts be used to the benefit...

    Introducing a Week on Art and Mission

    The arts have often found an uneasy place in the area of mission.  When so many issues are at stake in mission work, how can we justify spending time on the arts?  Can the arts be used to the benefit...

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  • In a featurette on the making of the film ‘The Artist’, actor James Cromwell, who plays Clifton the chauffeur remarks about the film, ‘What’s exciting about it is you have a movie using the techniques that were in use in...

    An Exercise in Transposition: Reflections on ‘The Artist’

    In a featurette on the making of the film ‘The Artist’, actor James Cromwell, who plays Clifton the chauffeur remarks about the film, ‘What’s exciting about it is you have a movie using the techniques that were in use in...

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  • What if we hold to a theology that understands being a Christian as being united with Christ and that, as such, God is able to reveal himself through us?  Does such a thought excite or frighten?  Or, would you just rather wave the whole thing away?

    A Nod to Gestures

    What if we hold to a theology that understands being a Christian as being united with Christ and that, as such, God is able to reveal himself through us? Does such a thought excite or frighten? Or, would you just rather wave the whole thing away?

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  • Todd E. Johnson and Dale Savidge, Performing the Sacred: Theology and Theatre in Dialogue (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2009), £12.99/$21.99, ISBN 080102952X. Looking for links and analogies between a particular artistic medium and theology can be greatly rewarding.  It can...

    Performing the Sacred: A Review

    Todd E. Johnson and Dale Savidge, Performing the Sacred: Theology and Theatre in Dialogue (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2009), £12.99/$21.99, ISBN 080102952X. Looking for links and analogies between a particular artistic medium and theology can be greatly rewarding.  It can...

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