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adjective

Evangelical adj.

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; preeminently 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 religious bodies not regarded as orthodox.

4.

Having or characterized by a zealous, crusading enthusiasm for a cause.

5.

Adhering to a form of Christianity characterized by a conservative interpretation of the bible, but disavowing the label 'bdfundamentalist'b8.

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 religious sect founded in Scotland in 1843 by the Rev. James Morison; called also Morisonians.

noun

Evangelical n. One of evangelical principles.

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Etymology of 'Evangelical'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Evangelical" Quotes from Famous Books

... Jeremiah and Ezekiel. It was during the era of Assyrian and Babylonian invasion that the predictions of a MESSIAH, a great Deliverer and righteous Ruler who was to come, assumed a more definite expression. The spiritual character of Isaiah's teaching has given him the name of "the evangelical prophet." ...

— Outline of Universal History • George Park Fisher

... are drawn from history, mythology, the daily newspapers, biography, and fiction. They are all interesting, and the author always makes a plain, sensible, evangelical application of them, well calculated ...

— In His Image • William Jennings Bryan

... anyone asking aid. Stern in rectitude herself, and iron to the fawning or the dishonest, her influence, whether she was feared or loved, was always for good. Of the strictest sect of the Evangelicals, she was an Evangelical. On the Sunday no books were allowed save the Bible or the "Sunday at Home"; but she would try to make the day bright by various little devices; by a walk with her in the garden; by the singing of hymns, always attractive to children; by telling us wonderful ...

— Autobiographical Sketches • Annie Besant

... the committee reported a set of resolutions beginning, "We believe in God," etc., when she at once protested on the ground that "the woman suffrage platform must be kept free from all theological bias, so that unbelievers as well as evangelical ...

— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper

... for a moment to his religious department, decided that it needed a freshening of interest, and secured Dwight L. Moody, whose evangelical work was then so prominently in the public eye, to conduct "Mr. Moody's Bible Class" in the magazine—practically a study of the stated Bible lesson of the month with explanation in Moody's simple ...

— The Americanization of Edward Bok - The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After • Edward William Bok (1863-1930)

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