About The Word Evangelical
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Evangelical
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What's The Definition Of Evangelical?
[adj] marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause
[adj] of or pertaining to or in keeping with the Christian gospel especially as in the first 4 books of the New Testament [adj] 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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Evangelical: enthusiastic | evangelistic Related Terms | Find terms related to Evangelical: accepted | apocalyptic | apostolic | approved | authentic | authoritative | Biblical | bigoted | canonical | Christian | conventional | correct | creedbound | customary | dogmatic | evangelic | evangelistic | faithful | firm | fundamentalist | Gospel | hidebound | hyperorthodox | inspired | literal | literalist | literalistic | Mosaic | New-Testament | of the faith | Old-Testament | orthodox | orthodoxical | precisianist | precisianistic | proper | prophetic | purist | puristic | puritanical | received | revealed | revelational | right | Sabbatarian | scriptural | sound | standard | staunch | straitlaced | strict | textual | textuary | theopneustic | traditional | traditionalistic | true | true-blue See Also | Evangelical In Webster's Dictionary \E`van*gel"ic*al\, a.
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; pre["e]minetly 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.
{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 religion sect founded in Scotland in
1843 by the Rev. James Morison; -- called also
{Morisonians}.
\E`van*gel"ic*al\, n. One of evangelical principles. |
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