Wilberforce in Conversation - Samuel Burgess on Edmund Burke and conservatism

In the fifth of a series of interviews with Wilberforce Academy contributors Paul Huxley talks to author Samuel Burgess about Edmund Burke and conservatism. Samuel gained a first-class degree in theology at the University of Durham, and subsequently studied for an MPhil at the University of Cambridge and a DPhil at the University of Oxford.

"What Burke argued was that our legal rights are a contextual expression of things that are given to us because of inherent dignity and worth, but they come with correlate duties and responsibilities that arise from the social structures, communities and relationships that we are born into."

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Books referenced:

1. Edmund Burke's Battle with Liberalism: His Christian Philosophy and Why it Matters Today, by Samuel Burgess

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Edmund-Burkes-Battle-Liberalism-Philosophy/dp/0995683239

2. Reflections on the Revolution in France, by Edmund Burke

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Reflections-Revolution-France-Edmund-Burke/dp/1617206709

3. The Desire of the Nations: Rediscovering the Roots of Political Theology, by Oliver O'Donovan

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Desire-Nations-Rediscovering-Political-Theology/dp/0521665167

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