Mar 24, 2021
CHURCH AND STATE, A CLASSICAL DEBATE:
"...paradoxical as it may seem, the church, through its frequent tussles with secular rulers over the boundary between church power and state power, had encouraged the evolution of a tradition of political theory which emphasized the principle of governmental limitation and responsibility. There was, in other words, a limit-in this case, an ecclesiastical one-on worldly power; and the theme of kingship balanced by priesthood and prophetic office is important in the statuary of Chartres and many of the great Gothic cathedrals."
~Dr. Francis Schaeffer, How Should We Then Live?