"Beyond doubt, therefore, our teachings are more noble than all human teaching, because Christ, who appeared on earth for our sakes, became the whole Logos, namely, Logos and body and soul. Everything that the philosophers and legislators discovered and expressed well, they accomplished through their discovery and contemplation of some part of the Logos."—St. Justin Martyr, Second Apology Ch. 10
St. Justin's point that Christ is the Divine Logos in whom all that is true, good, and beautiful in natural philosophy participates is very important for us to appreciate and internalize in the modern day. Too often faith and reason are cast as being in opposition to one another by secular society, but the truth that St. Justin attests to in the second century is that the Church has always recognized that reason without faith can only grasp partial truths, whereas when it is exercised in conjunction with faith it can more fully appreciate the nature of reality. This should free us to engage the natural sciences with confidence, knowing that whatever genuine truths they uncover about created reality already hold together in the Logos, and that faith does not compete with these discoveries but illuminates their deeper significance.
