The phrase "assertion of faith" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a declaration or statement that expresses a belief or conviction, particularly in a religious or philosophical context.
Example: "The sermon focused on the importance of the assertion of faith in overcoming life's challenges."
Alternatives: "declaration of belief" or "statement of faith."
Dr. Weiss thought, as an assertion of faith, "I'm not going to let the galoots get me".
It's a vast cube of dark space, where pagan priests once prayed: a huge assertion of faith and power, high above a city now in ruins.
And yet because this is a painting, and one that relishes the story of western painting - Kitaj based its topography on Giorgione's Venetian masterpiece The Tempest - it's a defiant assertion of faith in art.
But any version of Christianity must resort, in the end, to an assertion of faith, to fundamentalism of a sort, be it as simple as shouts of assent at a revival meeting or as pondered and impressively phrased as Karl Barth's neo-orthodoxy.
If liberalism were a blind assertion of faith akin to other faiths -- belief in Christ or Allah -- we would have no grounds to defend free speech as opposed to "speech by permission," suited to the preferences of some, enforced by their power to coerce compliance.
Some of those questions may remain even after contemporary battles cease: how much faith is involved in the workings of reason and how much reason lies in the assertions of faith?
The Republican plan is, in short, an assertion of a faith that transcends mundane economic logic.
And that brought me back to the SFA, which was basically an assertion of pagan faith in the aura of the artwork.
We all know Dr. King's methods, so we may suspect that the assertion of passive faith in a process of greater nature rather belied his true intentions.
The park will be managed by a subsidiary of Answers in Genesis (AiG), which owns and runs the Creation Museum and requires its employees to adhere to a statement of faith that the Bible is "inerrant" and its assertions "factually true".
As football fans are aware, Walker is the kind of media disciple who, if he lacks the official authority of, say, a Rev Richard Coles, our own Rev Giles Fraser, or their colleague, HSBC's Rev Stephen Green, more than compensates for this lay status with assertions of inflexible faith.
