November 22, 2004

  • 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.

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    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.

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    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

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