Ched Spellman

Ched Spellman is assistant professor of biblical and theological studies at Cedarville University in Cedarville, Ohio.

Articles

The literary notion of “implied reader” invokes a series of hermeneutically significant questions: What is it? Who produces it? and How can it be identified? These questions naturally lead to a further query: What is the relationship between this implied reader of a text and an actual reader of a text? This type of study is often associated primarily with reader-response theory and purely literary approaches...