Article-of-faith Synonyms

(Christianity) any of the sections into which a creed or other statement of doctrine is divided
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. credendum
An unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. conviction
  2. strong belief

Article-of-faith Sentence Examples

  • Exposed thus to attack, his weakness, if not his venality, was long an article of faith among the liberals.

  • Starling does not accept this view, and cannot regard as an article of faith Heidenhain's dictum that normally filtration plays no part in the formation of lymph.

  • The synod grounded its procedure against the rival popes on a fact, ostensibly patent to all, but actually believed by none - that they were both supporters of the schism, and not merely this, but heretics in the truest and fullest sense of the word, since their attitude had impugned and subverted the article of faith concerning the one Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.

  • But in 1351 under the presidency of the emperor John Cantacuzenus, the uncreated light of Mount Tabor was established as an article of faith for the Greeks, who ever since have been ready to recognize it as an additional ground of separation from the Roman Church.

  • It was an article of faith with her disciples that the outward and visible Helena Petrovna Blavatsky was on certain occasions the vehicle of psychic powers of transcendent spiritual import.

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