Article of faith in gospel (5)
I believe the answer is:
thing
'article' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'of faith in gospel' is the wordplay.
'of' indicates a hidden word.
'THING' is hidden within 'faith in gospel'.
(Other definitions for thing that I've seen before include "Individual unit" , "Individual object" , "A creature" , "Obsession" , "Object; gadget" .)