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adjective

Evangelical adj.

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; preeminently 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 religious bodies not regarded as orthodox.

4.

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

5.

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

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 religious sect founded in Scotland in 1843 by the Rev. James Morison; called also Morisonians.

noun

Evangelical n. One of evangelical principles.

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"Evangelical" Quotes from Famous Books

... competent to deal with the profoundest problems which can exercise our thoughts, who at the same time have come to a conviction,—compatible as they believe with principles of the clearest reason,—of the truth of those very doctrines which form the substance of evangelical Christianity. In saying this, the translator is far from claiming the Author as belonging to the same school of theology with himself: but differing with him on some important points, he has yet believed that this volume is ...

— The Heavenly Father - Lectures on Modern Atheism • Ernest Naville

... mankind will no longer be interfered with by the finger of a supposed omnipotence, and no one will believe that nations or individuals are protected or destroyed by any deity whatever. Science, freed from the chains of pious custom and evangelical prejudice, will, within her sphere, be supreme. The mind will investigate without reverence and publish its conclusions without fear. Agassiz will no longer hesitate to declare the Mosaic cosmogony utterly inconsistent with the demonstrated ...

— Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I • Robert Green Ingersoll

... and ruled his own people with a mildness which made him liked as well as respected. In 1832 he had the foresight to invite missionaries to come and settle among his people, and the following year saw the establishment of the mission of the Evangelical Society of Paris, whose members, some of them French, some Swiss, a few Scotch, have been the most potent factors in the subsequent history of the Basuto nation. When the inevitable collision between the ...

— Impressions of South Africa • James Bryce

... considerable portion of the Anglican communion. Their pietistic trait, combined, for the most part, with a Calvinism which Wesley abhorred and an old-fashioned low church feeling with which also Wesley had no sympathy, shows itself in the so-called evangelical party which was strong before 1830. This evangelical movement in the Church of England manifested deep religious feeling, it put forth zealous philanthropic effort, it had among its representatives ...

— Edward Caldwell Moore - Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant • Edward Moore

... handed down the ages as part of "the sacred deposit of the faith" until Watson, the most prolific writer of the evangelical reform in the eighteenth century and the standard theologian of the evangelical party, declared: "We have no reason at all to believe that the animal had a serpentine form in any mode or degree until its transformation; that he ...

— History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom • Andrew Dickson White

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