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Definitions for evangelical
evan·gel·i·cal
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Princeton's WordNet
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"
evangelicaladjective
of or pertaining to or in keeping with the Christian gospel especially as in the first 4 books of the New Testament
evangelical, evangelisticadjective
marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause
GCIDE
Evangelicaladjective
Having or characterized by a zealous, crusading enthusiasm for a cause.
Evangelicaladjective
Adhering to a form of Christianity characterized by a conservative interpretation of the bible, but disavowing the label 'bdfundamentalist`'b8.
Wiktionary
evangelicalnoun
A member of an evangelical church
evangelicalnoun
An advocate of evangelicalism
evangelicaladjective
Pertaining to the gospel(s) of the Christian New Testament
evangelicaladjective
Pertaining to the doctrines or teachings of the Christian gospel or Christianity in general.
evangelicaladjective
Protestant; specifically, designating European churches which were originally Lutheran rather than Calvinist.
evangelicaladjective
Pertaining to a movement in Protestant Christianity that stresses personal conversion and the authority of the Bible (evangelicalism).
evangelicaladjective
Zealously enthusiastic.
Evangelicaladjective
Of, or relating to any of several Christian Churches that believe in the sole authority of the gospels
Evangelicaladjective
Of, or relating to Protestant (especially Lutheran) Churches in Germany
Etymology: from evangelium, from εὐαγγέλιον
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Evangelicaladjective
Etymology: evangelique, French; evangelicus, Latin.
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.
Those evangelical hymns they allow not to stand in our liturgy. Richard Hooker, b. v. s. 35.
Webster Dictionary
Evangelicaladjective
contained in, or relating to, the four Gospels; as, the evangelical history
Evangelicaladjective
belonging to, agreeable or consonant to, or contained in, the gospel, or the truth taught in the New Testament; as, evangelical religion
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
Evangelicalnoun
one of evangelical principles
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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.
Editors Contribution
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
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of evangelical in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of evangelical in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of evangelical in a Sentence
There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners.
I don't have a good count on it because he hasn't been here much, probably his base in Iowa is different -- is more of an evangelical base -- than we have here in New Hampshire.
The event was viewed more as an evangelical event with a political tone to it, and the bishops don't participate in such events.
She could play a pivotal role in all of these issues and in the future of the party, she’s an American success story with a biographical narrative that lends itself to a larger, inspirational story. Friends who know her well have always been evangelical about her potential. They are not surprised.
It remains to be seen, there’s a competition for evangelical voters. And we’ll see whether they respond to Ted Cruz’s message and if he gets the campaign energy that Trump now has.
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