evangelical
/iːvanˈdʒɛlɪk(ə)l
/ /ɛvanˈdʒɛlɪk(ə)l/adjective
1Of or according to the teaching of the gospel or the Christian religion.A number of attempts have been made to explain the hostility to religious and especially to evangelical Christian beliefs....
- However, in Eastern Europe since the end of the communist regimes Catholic, Orthodox, and evangelical religion, as well as new religious sects, have witnessed a remarkable revival.
- Religion Watch is a useful newsletter that patrols the latest things in American, mainly evangelical, religion.
Synonyms
scriptural, biblical, Bible-believing, fundamentalist, orthodox
1.1Of or denoting a tradition within Protestant Christianity emphasizing the authority of the Bible, personal conversion, and the doctrine of salvation by faith in the Atonement.In recent decades, evangelical Protestant missionaries have converted many in Ecuador, especially in the countryside and urban slums....
- It is common in evangelical Protestant circles for converts to witness to their faith by recounting their experience of conversion.
- An increasingly common structural problem for community management in the Lower Amazon is related to the spread of Protestant evangelical faiths.
Synonyms
evangelistic, evangelizing, missionary, crusading, propagandist, propagandizing, converting, proselytizing, televangelical
informal Bible-bashing, Bible-thumping, Bible-punching
1.2Zealous in advocating or supporting a particular cause: she was evangelical about organic farming...
- I started off implacably opposed to this and now I am almost evangelical in my support.
- I get coffee and they get evangelical support from me and everyone I can convince to drink their coffee.
- Whilst the advocates of quality and empowerment are almost evangelical in their quest to change the way we work those on the receiving end are considerably more sceptical.
noun
A member of the evangelical tradition in the Christian Church.Its success also contributed to bitter divisions between the high church or catholic grouping and the low church or evangelicals....
- Now, evangelicals have filled churches with a gospel that lacks a call to repentance.
- These gatherings are a major event for professed evangelicals in the Church of England.
Derivatives
evangelic
- More specifically it pointed to its lack of goals as a empire, which I don't fully agree with as it seems to overlook late capitalism as an ideology, and globalisation as its evangelic / missionary form.
- In this way, the perspective of vernacular rhetoric reveals that the explicitly evangelic prayer form also functions as an invitation for group insiders to perform previously shared values.
- When a clown and an evangelic preacher wander into Ted's domain of the W.C. he forces them to dismantle their public masks and face the consequences of their beliefs and actions.
evangelicalism
/ /ɛvanˈdʒɛlɪk(ə)lɪz(ə)m / noun ...- Historic Protestantism is different from evangelicalism in its current incarnation.
- The plurality of roots feeding both Pentecostalism and evangelicalism explains, at least in part, the diversity of both movements today.
- He saw the Protestant movement and evangelicalism as an offshoot of one of the lungs, and therefore not urgent on the agenda.
evangelically
/ /ˌɛvanˈdʒɛlɪk(ə)li / adverb ...- The book comes from the evangelically robust Anglican sector in Australia.
- The bishops, demoralized by scandal, evangelically illiterate, walked peri passu with the warmaking state.
- In fact, he's looking forward to creating a ‘pipeline’ to hire evangelically minded Harvard Ph.D.s for teaching positions at his university in Waco, Texas.
Origin
Mid 16th century: via ecclesiastical Latin from ecclesiastical Greek euangelikos, from euangelos (see evangel).