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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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