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1. (Also, e&sec;van&syl;gel&prim;ic.) evangelical
pertaining to or in keeping with the Gospels and their teachings.
2. evangelical
belonging to or designating the Christian churches that emphasize the authority of the Scriptures, in opposition to the institutional authority of the church itself, and that stress personal conversion through faith in Christ.
3. evangelical
designating Christians, esp. since the 1970s, who hold to a conservative but not necessarily literal interpretation of the Bible.
4. evangelical
marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause.
5. (n.) evangelical
an adherent of evangelical doctrines.
6. evangelical
a person who belongs to an evangelical church or organization.
Etymology: (1525–35; < LL evangelicus (< LGk euangelikós))
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| Definition of 'evangelical' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) evangelical
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"
2. (adj) evangelical
of or pertaining to or in keeping with the Christian gospel especially as in the first 4 books of the New Testament
3. (adj) evangelical, evangelistic
marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) evangelical
contained in, or relating to, the four Gospels; as, the evangelical history
2. (adj) evangelical
belonging to, agreeable or consonant to, or contained in, the gospel, or the truth taught in the New Testament; as, evangelical religion
3. (adj) evangelical
earnest for the truth taught in the gospel; strict in interpreting Christian doctrine; preeminetly 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
4. (noun) evangelical
one of evangelical principles
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| Definitions of 'evangelical' |
The Nuttall Encyclopedia |
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1. evangelical
a term applied to all those forms of Christianity which regard the atonement of Christ, or His sacrifice on the Cross for sin, as the ground and central principle of the Christian faith.
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Sense: seeking to convert people, especially to Christianity.
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 Afrikaans: evangelies |
 Arabic: إنْجيلي، تَبْشيري |
 Bulgarian: евангелски |
 Brazilian: evangélico |
 Czech: evangelický |
 German: evangelisch |
 Danish: evangelisk |
 Greek: ευαγγελικός |
 Spanish: evangélico |
 Estonian: evangeelne |
 Farsi: بشارت دهنده به دین مسیح |
 Finnish: evankelinen |
 French: évangélique |
 Hebrew: אֱווֵנגֶלִי |
 Hindi: ईसाई धर्म पुस्तक सम्बन्धी |
 Croatian: evanđeoski |
 Hungarian: evangéliumi |
 Indonesian: menyebarkan agama |
 Icelandic: evangelískur; trúboðs- |
 Italian: evangelico |
 Japanese: 福音主義の |
 Korean: 복음주의의 |
 Lithuanian: skleidžiantis tikėjimą |
 Latvian: evaņģēlisks |
 Malay: menyebarkan agama |
 Dutch: evangelisch |
 Norwegian: evangelisk (kristen) |
 Polish: szerzący wiarę |
 Persian: بشارت دهنده به دین مسیح |
 Pashto: دانجيل،دپروټسټانټ دكليسا، |
 Portuguese: evangélico |
 Romanian: evanghelic |
 Russian: евангелический |
 Slovak: evanjelický |
 Slovenian: evangeljski |
 Serbian: jevanđelski |
 Swedish: evangelisk |
 Thai: ประเมิน |
 Turkish: Hristiyanlığı yaymaya yön |
 Taiwanese: (基督教)福音教派的 |
 Ukrainian: євангельський |
 Urdu: انجیل یا عیسائی عقائد کے |
 Vietnamese: thuộc về Kinh Phúc âm |
 Chinese: 福音（传教）的，新教会的 |
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