3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Evangelical \E`van*gel"ic*al\, n.
One of evangelical principles.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Evangelical \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}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [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}]
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