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EVANGELICAL
evangelical, evangelistic
(adjective) marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause
evangelical
(adjective) of or pertaining to or in keeping with the Christian gospel especially as in the first 4 books of the New Testament
evangelical
(adjective) relating to or being a Christian church believing in personal conversion and the inerrancy of the Bible especially the 4 Gospels; “evangelical Christianity”; “an ultraconservative evangelical message”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
evangelical (comparative more evangelical, superlative most evangelical)
Pertaining to the doctrines or teachings of the Christian gospel or Christianity in general.
Pertaining to the gospel(s) of the Christian New Testament.
Protestant; specifically Lutheran and Calvinist churches in continental Europe as well as their offshoots in North America.
Pertaining to a movement in Protestant Christianity that stresses personal conversion and the authority of the Bible (evangelicalism).
Pertaining to Islamic groups that are dedicated to dawah and preaching the Quran and sunnah.
Zealously enthusiastic.
Usage notes
While evangelical may have all the above meanings, it is often used now for meaning 4.
Evangelic has only the meanings 1-3 and is now used often to differentiate these meanings from evangelicalism.
Synonyms
• evangelic
Antonyms
• antievangelical
• nonevangelical
Noun
evangelical (plural evangelicals)
A member of an evangelical church
An advocate of evangelicalism
Adjective
Evangelical
Of, or relating to any of several Christian Churches that believe in the sole authority of the gospels
Of, or relating to Protestant (especially Lutheran) Churches in Germany
Source: Wiktionary
E`van*gel"ic*al, a.
1. Contained in, or relating to, the four Gospels; as, the evangelical history.
2. Belonging to, agreeable or consonant to, or contained in, the gospel, or the truth taught in the New Testament; as, evangelical religion.
3. Earnest for the truth taught in the gospel; strict in interpreting Christian doctrine; preëminetly orthodox; -- technically applied to that party in the Church of England, and in the Protestant Episcopal Church, which holds the doctrine of "Justification by Faith alone"; the Low Church party. The term is also applied to other religion bodies not regarded as orthodox. Evangelical Alliance, an alliance for mutual strengthening and common work, comprising Christians of different denominations and countries, organized in Liverpool, England, in 1845.
– Evangelical Church. (a) The Protestant Church in Germany. (b) A church founded by a fusion of Lutherans and Calvinists in Germany in 1817.
– Evangelical Union, a religion sect founded in Scotland in 1843 by the Rev. James Morison; -- called also Morisonians.
E`van*gel"ic*al, n.
Definition: One of evangelical principles.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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