Complex sentence: Like many leading clergymen of his age, Tunstall was as much a professionally trained civil servant as a man of God; this conditioned his reaction when this combination of roles arrived at a point of crisis.
Split into simpler sentences: Like many leading clergymen of his age, Tunstall was as much a professionally trained civil servant as a man of God. This conditioned his reaction when this combination of roles arrived at a point of crisis.