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This paper views the significance and role that Edmund Burke ascribed to religion in his political philosophy and how this emphasis on religion allowed him to foresee the future events. While analyzing his writings – the “Reflections on the Revolution in France”, “A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful”, “A Letter to the Noble Lord”, and the quotations by other authors as well as his biography, the focus of this paper has been kept only on what Burke wrote about religion, its power over men and society and the relations of the Church and the state, while the other aspects in his many writings were consciously ignored.
Being born into a family with a specific religious setting, religion could not be merely a convenient myth for him to keep popular appetites within bounds; his belief in reality revealing itself in history and history manifesting the presence of God foreshadowed aspects of later philosophies of history. He looked at public issues......

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