Definitions for Evangelical
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1. evangelicaladjective

   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. evangelicaladjective

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

3. evangelical, evangelisticadjective

   marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause

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1. Evangelicaladjective

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

2. Evangelicaladjective

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

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1. evangelicalnoun

   A member of an evangelical church

2. evangelicalnoun

   An advocate of evangelicalism

3. evangelicaladjective

   Pertaining to the gospel(s) of the Christian New Testament

4. evangelicaladjective

   Pertaining to the doctrines or teachings of the Christian gospel or Christianity in general.

5. evangelicaladjective

   Protestant; specifically, designating European churches which were originally Lutheran rather than Calvinist.

6. evangelicaladjective

   Pertaining to a movement in Protestant Christianity that stresses personal conversion and the authority of the Bible (evangelicalism).

7. evangelicaladjective

   Zealously enthusiastic.

8. Evangelicaladjective

   Of, or relating to any of several Christian Churches that believe in the sole authority of the gospels

9. Evangelicaladjective

   Of, or relating to Protestant (especially Lutheran) Churches in Germany

10. Etymology: from evangelium, from εὐαγγέλιον

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Evangelicaladjective

   Etymology: evangelique, French; evangelicus, Latin.

   1. Agreeable to gospel; consonant to the Christian law revealed in the holy gospel.

   This distinction between moral goodness and evangelical perfection, ought to have been observed. Francis Atterbury, Sermons.

   God will indeed judge the world in righteousness; but ’tis by an evangelical, not a legal righteousness, and by the intervention of the man Christ Jesus, who is the Saviour as well as the judge of the world. Francis Atterbury, Sermons.

   2. Contained in the gospel.

   Those evangelical hymns they allow not to stand in our liturgy. Richard Hooker, b. v. s. 35.

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1. evangelical

   Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that affirms the centrality of being "born again", in which an individual experiences personal conversion; the authority of the Bible as God's revelation to humanity (biblical inerrancy); and spreading the Christian message. The word evangelical comes from the Greek (euangelion) word for "good news".Its origins are usually traced to 1738, with various theological streams contributing to its foundation, including Pietism and Radical Pietism, Puritanism, Quakerism, Presbyterianism and Moravianism (in particular its bishop Nicolaus Zinzendorf and his community at Herrnhut). Preeminently, John Wesley and other early Methodists were at the root of sparking this new movement during the First Great Awakening. Today, evangelicals are found across many Protestant branches, as well as in various denominations around the world, not subsumed to a specific branch. Among leaders and major figures of the evangelical Protestant movement were Nicolaus Zinzendorf, George Fox, John Wesley, George Whitefield, Jonathan Edwards, Billy Graham, Bill Bright, Harold Ockenga, Gudina Tumsa, John Stott, Francisco Olazábal, William J. Seymour, Martyn Lloyd-Jones.The movement has long had a presence in the Anglosphere before spreading further afield in the 19th, 20th and early 21st centuries. The movement gained great momentum during the 18th and 19th centuries with the Great Awakenings in Great Britain and the United States. In 2016, there were an estimated 619 million evangelicals in the world, meaning that one in four Christians would be classified as evangelical. The United States has the largest proportion of evangelicals in the world. American evangelicals are a quarter of that nation's population and its single largest religious group. As a transdenominational coalition, evangelicals can be found in nearly every Protestant denomination and tradition, particularly within the Calvinist (Continental Reformed, Presbyterian, Congregational), Arminian, Plymouth Brethren, Baptist, Methodist (Wesleyan, Holiness), Lutheran, Moravian, Free Church, Mennonite, Quaker, Pentecostal, Charismatic, and non-denominational churches.

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1. evangelical

   Evangelical refers to a broad group or movement within Protestant Christianity that emphasizes the authority of the Bible, the necessity of personal conversion or being "born again," the centrality of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ for salvation, and the urgency of actively spreading the Gospel. This term may also be used to describe a method of Christian ministry or a particular attitude towards Christianity's role in the world. It is derived from the Greek word "euangelion" meaning "good news" or "gospel."

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1. Evangelicaladjective

   contained in, or relating to, the four Gospels; as, the evangelical history

2. Evangelicaladjective

   belonging to, agreeable or consonant to, or contained in, the gospel, or the truth taught in the New Testament; as, evangelical religion

3. Evangelicaladjective

   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. Evangelicalnoun

   one of evangelical principles

The Nuttall EncyclopediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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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1. evangelical

   a believer in justification by faith alone, the necessity of the new birth, the supremacy of Scripture vs. tradition, and that all Christians are called to evangelize

   George Whitefield was a zealous evangelical. He was very evangelical, very Bible-centered.

   
   

   Submitted by Noah Hirsch on May 8, 2018  

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Evangelical in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Evangelical in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Evangelical in a Sentence

1. Ralph Reed:

   There’s no path to the nomination without winning the evangelical vote. Nobody knows that better than President Trump because, to the surprise of almost everyone, he won their support in 2016, he’s going to get a very fair hearing from voters of faith. But this will be a contested primary with a lot of pro-life candidates and all of them will get to make their case.

2. Randall Balmer:

   Branden Camp/AP had no problem being identified as a progressive evangelical, at one time, there was a strong element within the( Southern Baptist) Convention that would be identified as progressive evangelicalism, but now that’s pretty much been obliterated.

3. Ryan Price:

   In the church, we have a saying, keep your hand on the plow, you're plowing hard ground, the roots of racism and inequity are deep … more reason to hold on tight and keep at it for the sake of truth, humanity and unity. The debate over critical race theory is in schools and government, but now it's starting to infiltrate and divide the Christian church. ( iStock) Critical race theory has begun to cause fissures in evangelical circles. In 2019 the Southern Baptist Convention, one of the most conservative Christian denominations, adopted Resolution 9, which accepted some of the tenets of CRT as a.

4. Ben Carson:

   He tends to talk about things that are right versus wrong. And that's something that I think many evangelicals identify with. And I'm sure there are some who may be a little skeptical about some of the depth of his evangelical conversion. But they like the fact that he paints things in a way that is very clear.

5. Pete Buttigieg:

   There's a classic parlor game of trying to find a little bit of daylight between running mates, if people want to play that game we could look into why an evangelical Christian like Vice President Mike Pence wants to be on a ticket with a president caught with a porn star.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Evangelical
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=Evangelical
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Evangelical
4. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Evangelical
5. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelical
6. ^ ChatGPT
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7. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Evangelical
8. ^ The Nuttall Encyclopedia
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12342/pg12342-images.html#Evangelical