Philip Schaff
1819–1893
Swiss-born American church historian; his eight-volume History of the Christian Church is still the most readable survey in English.
In his own words
In general, from this time forth the prevailing view was, that God has divided all power between the priesthood and the kingdom (sacerdotium et imperium), giving internal or spiritual affairs, especially doctrine and worship, to the former, and external or temporal affairs, such as government and discipline, to the latter. [240] But internal and external here vitally interpenetrate and depend on each other, as soul and body, and frequent reciprocal encroachments and collisions are inevitable upon state-church ground. This becomes manifest in the period before us in many ways, especially in the East, where the Byzantine despotism had freer play, than in the distant West.
Quoted verbatim from the library, as an answer would quote it.
What we hold of him
History of the Christian Church, Vol. 4: Medieval Christianity
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History of the Christian Church, Vol. 7: The Swiss Reformation
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History of the Christian Church, Vol. 8: The Age of the Reformation
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History of the Christian Church, Vol. 6: The German Reformation
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History of the Christian Church, Vol. 2: Ante-Nicene Christianity
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History of the Christian Church, Vol. 5: The Middle Ages
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History of the Christian Church, Vol. 1: Apostolic Christianity
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History of the Christian Church, Vol. 3: Nicene and Post-Nicene Christianity
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