November 22, 2004
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Lynchburg Law
From today’s New York Times:
The Rev. Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University [at Lynchburg, Virginia] is part of a movement
around the nation that brings a religious perspective to the law.
Sam Dean for The New York Times
The connection between the Bible and the law is part of the curriculum at Liberty, one of a number
of new religiously oriented
law schools.The Times’s photo (above) of books
on the Bible and the law,
apparently at Lynchburg, suggests a related book
that may be of considerable value to the legal scholars there:Charles Williams on the
Salem witchcraft trials:“The afflicted children continued to testify; there entered into the
cases what was called ‘spectral evidence,’ a declaration by the witness
that he or she could see that else invisible shape before them, perhaps
hurting them. It was a very ancient tendency of witnesses, and it had
occurred at a number of trials in Europe.”– Witchcraft, Meridian Books, Inc., New York,
1959 (first published 1941), page 281
