Wiktionary
n. A thing that is believed as a matter of faith.
WordNet
n. (Christianity) any of the sections into which a creed or other statement of doctrine is divided [syn: credendum]
an unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence [syn: conviction, strong belief]
Usage examples of "article of faith".
Yet the precise number of the prophets is not an article of faith.
The Polytheists were disposed to adopt every article of faith, which seemed to offer any resemblance, however distant or imperfect, with the popular mythology.
His first and only article of faith was the existence of one God, the Author of all good.
The doctrine of a future state was scarcely considered among the devout polytheists of Greece and Rome as a fundamental article of faith.
It was simply accepted as an article of faith that cross-pollination was good for something, and so the best and brightest officers were taken away from their professional specialties and dropped into things which they knew not the first thing about.
It was an article of faith in the United States navy that its fleet ballistic-missile submarines had never, not ever, not once been tracked while on deterrence patrol.
Among the French General Staff it was an article of faith that the Germans would not mix reserve units with active units, and this led to the belief that the Germans would not have enough men in the front line to do two things at once: send a strong right wing in a wide sweep through Belgium west of the Meuse and keep sufficient forces at their center and left to stop a French breakthrough to the Rhine.
I have taken it as an article of faith since the day you set the ring on my finger, and I dare say before that.
But we purposely allowed the third man to disappear-an article of faith on our part.
True, Captain Rodericks (who took as an article of faith that only a busy crew could possibly be a happy crew—.
He said, First Speaker, it is an article of faith that it was Preem Palver who restored the Plan to its course after the wild aberrance of the Century of Deviations.
All members of the Inner Party believe in this coming conquest as an article of faith.