"From the very heart of Christian faith and, at the same time, the heart of Greek thought now joined to faith, emperor Manuel II was able to say: Not to act "with logos" is contrary to God's nature.… Is the conviction that acting unreasonably contradicts God's nature merely a Greek idea, or is it always and intrinsically true? … Modifying the first verse of the Book of Genesis, the first verse of the whole Bible, John began the prologue of his Gospel with the words: "In the beginning was the λόγος". This is the very word used by the emperor: God acts, σὺν λόγω, with logos. Logos means both reason and word — a reason which is creative and capable of self-communication, precisely as reason. John thus spoke the final word on the biblical concept of God, and in this word all the often toilsome and tortuous threads of biblical faith find their culmination and synthesis. In the beginning was the logos, and the logos is God, says the Evangelist."
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Pope Benedict XVI, in "Faith, Reason and the University — Memories and Reflections" (12 September 2006)
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