renewalistn.adj.
/rᵻˈnjuːəlɪst/, U.S. /rəˈn(j)uələst/, /riˈn(j)uələst/ A. n.
1. An advocate or adherent of a new or restored (esp. religious) system or practice; a reformist. Cf. renewalism n. 1.
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the world > action or operation > amending > [noun] > reform > one who > one who favours reform
reformado1787
reformationist1824
new-birthitea1834
new eraist1872
reformist1906
renewalist1966
1966 S. C. Rose Grass Roots Church ii. 24 I agree entirely with the anti-institutional renewalists that there is no point in trying to resuscitate the denominations in their present form.
1968 Newark (Ohio) Advocate 21 Sept. 4/3 The efforts of the renewalists are in many cases driving Catholics away from the Church.
1989 Independent (Nexis) 11 Apr. 10 The renewalists..are demanding that the old guard of the right make way for new faces.
2. Christian Church. Also with capital initial. An advocate or member of the charismatic movement; an adherent of charismatic renewal. Cf. renewalism n. 2.
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society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > Pentecostalism > [noun] > charismatic movement > person
charismatic1910
renewalist1975
happy-clappy1988
1975 Theory & Society 2 215 Recently the Pope granted an audience to a group of European Renewalists.
1988 T. Higton & G. Kirby Challenge of Housechurches 10 The renewalists..look for changes within the framework of their own denomination.
2006 Christian Cent. 31 Oct. 12/3 The Pew study settled on renewalists as an umbrella term for Pentecostals and charismatics.
B. adj.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of renewalism or renewalists (in either sense).
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society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > Pentecostalism > [adjective] > charismatic movement
renewalist1966
charismatic1976
happy-clappy1991
1966 J. E. Talbott Politic & Educ. Reform in Interwar France 176 After the first world war the renewalist tendency, encouraged from Rome, acquired a legitimacy that it had not possessed in the past.
1979 Jrnl. Relig. 59 118 Many Evangelicals, Ethnics, and Charismatics (of the ‘soft,’ renewalist type) remain within mainline churches.
1993 Eng. Today Jan. 49/2 In that way, his approach is not so much revisionist as renewalist.
2007 Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) (Nexis) 26 June c1 Nearly half of the country's 42 million Latinos are renewalist Christians.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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