Evangelical

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Evangelical \E`van*gel"ic*al\, a.
     1. Contained in, or relating to, the four Gospels; as, the
        evangelical history.
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     2. Belonging to, agreeable or consonant to, or contained in,


        the gospel, or the truth taught in the New Testament; as,
        evangelical religion.
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     3. Earnest for the truth taught in the gospel; strict in
        interpreting Christian doctrine; pre["e]minently 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.
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     4. Having or characterized by a zealous, crusading enthusiasm
        for a cause.
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     5. Adhering to a form of Christianity characterized by a
        conservative interpretation of the bible, but disavowing
        the label 'bdfundamentalist`'b8.
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     {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}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Evangelical \E`van*gel"ic*al\, n.
     One of evangelical principles.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  evangelical
       adj 1: 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"
       2: of or pertaining to or in keeping with the Christian gospel
          especially as in the first 4 books of the New Testament
       3: marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause [syn: {evangelistic}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  59 Moby Thesaurus words for "evangelical":
     Biblical, Christian, Gospel, Mosaic, New-Testament, Old-Testament,
     Sabbatarian, accepted, apocalyptic, apostolic, approved, authentic,
     authoritative, bigoted, canonical, conventional, correct,
     creedbound, customary, dogmatic, evangelic, evangelistic, faithful,
     firm, fundamentalist, gospel, hidebound, hyperorthodox, inspired,
     literal, literalist, literalistic, of the faith, orthodox,
     orthodoxical, precisianist, precisianistic, proper, prophetic,
     purist, puristic, puritanical, received, revealed, revelational,
     right, scriptural, sound, standard, staunch, straitlaced, strict,
     textual, textuary, theopneustic, traditional, traditionalistic,
     true, true-blue