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Evangelical

adjective

Relating to or being a Christian church believing in personal conversion and the inerrancy of the Bible especially the 4 Gospels. "An ultraconservative evangelical message"

Of or pertaining to or in keeping with the Christian gospel especially as in the first 4 books of the New Testament.

Marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause. Synonym: evangelistic.

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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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