Lynchburg Law
From today’s New York Times:
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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
