"This is also the case with Origen, who, however, in the Against Celsus, also uses terms such as dogma, didaskalia, episteme, logos, sophia, theologia, etc., but who maintains the use of “gnosis” and “gnostic” even though he is fighting against a heretical Gnosticism, which leads him to the statement that “Christians have not been afraid to use the same vocabulary as the gnostics”35. We see the same attitude in St. Irenaeus of Lyons, whose Adversus Haereses fights the “gnosis with a false name” to establish the “true gnosis”. And it is the same for St. Dionysius the Aeropagite or St. Gregory of Nyssa. Thus, there has undoubtedly been an authentically Christian gnosis.36 And undoubtedly it was a great misfortune for the West that the Latin language did not contain any equivalent term to translate gnosis, because neither agnitio or cognitio nor scientia or doctrina had received from their Biblical, and then Pauline use, the sacred meaning of the Greek term.37 This semantic inferiority was obviously to favour the appearance and development of a theological rationalism which necessarily led to the anti-intellectual reactions of existential theology and, finally, to the disappearance of the doctrina sacra."

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