True, the scholastics were an effort to derive theology from philosophy and logic and are how Asian and Greek philosophy and culture became part of the Western world, which then evolved into Western logic, Math and Philosophy.
The cultural importance of education in Jewry, the preservation of that in Christianity and that Christians can never take any understanding of something for granted and always need to question everything, because the Universe (being created by God) will always be more complex than any current knowledge of it, is the origin of the Western concept of Empirism and formalized (Natural-)Science, even if a lot of modern Atheists like to sweep that under the rack.
A lot of early and also late scientists researched as a part to understand the world their God created, meaning they understood it as a approach to worship God.
The cultural importance of education in Jewry, the preservation of that in Christianity and that Christians can never take any understanding of something for granted and always need to question everything, because the Universe (being created by God) will always be more complex than any current knowledge of it, is the origin of the Western concept of Empirism and formalized (Natural-)Science, even if a lot of modern Atheists like to sweep that under the rack.
A lot of early and also late scientists researched as a part to understand the world their God created, meaning they understood it as a approach to worship God.