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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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"Evangelical" Quotes from Famous Books

... tumultuantes deos—and those splendid uncles who used to descend on the old school in a shower of gold— half-a-sovereign at the very least—all these should have trailed fairies with them in a cloud. But in practice the evangelical parent held the majority, put away all toys but Noah's Ark on Sundays, and voted the ...

— On The Art of Reading • Arthur Quiller-Couch

... should be assisted by the hostess, and gentlemen should never disregard her quiet suggestion on this score. After all, "the ball-room is a more fitting field for a display of the Christian graces than most Evangelical ...

— Social Life - or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society • Maud C. Cooke

... quick to support or to oppose the revival movement, and a goodly number of them, as itinerants, took up the evangelical work. Dr. Colman and Dr. Sewall of Boston, Jonathan Edwards and Dr. Bellamy of Connecticut, were among the most influential divines to support the Great Awakening,—to call the revival by the name by which it was to go down in history. Unfortunately, ...

— The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut • M. Louise Greene, Ph. D.

... 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 ...

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

... is transparent. It is not, as Longmans, who refused the work, believed, to attack Christianity. It is rather to expose the ease with which a good man and his message (Higgs brought with him to Erewhon evangelical Christianity) can become miraculous, can become an instrument for politics and a cause of sham. Indeed, Butler says in so many words to the Anglicans of his day: "Hold fast to your Christianity, for false as it is it is better than what its enemies would substitute; ...

— Definitions • Henry Seidel Canby

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