evangelical

See also: Evangelical

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Evangelicalism

evangelical (comparative more evangelical, superlative most evangelical)

Pertaining to the doctrines or teachings of the Christian gospel or Christianity in general.
Pertaining to the gospel(s) of the Christian New Testament.
Protestant; specifically Lutheran and Calvinist churches in continental Europe as well as their offshoots in North America.
Pertaining to a movement in Protestant Christianity that stresses personal conversion and the authority of the Bible (evangelicalism).
- 2015 January 6, Rachel Held Evans, “What Newsweek gets wrong about evangelicals”, in CNN‎^[1]:
  “They wave their Bibles at passersby, screaming their condemnations,” writes Kurt Eichenwald of evangelical Christians.
Pertaining to Islamic groups that are dedicated to dawah and preaching the Quran and sunnah.
- 1987, Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, Islamic Values in the United States: A Comparative Study, page 10:
  When the mosque came under the influence of an evangelical Muslim group (Jamaati Tableegh), the formerly congenial situation changed noticeably.
Zealously enthusiastic.

While evangelical may have all the above meanings, it is often used now for meaning 4.

Evangelic has only the meanings 1-3 and is now used often to differentiate these meanings from evangelicalism.

pertaining to the doctrines or teachings of the Christian gospel or Christianity in general

Protestant; specifically Lutheran and Calvinist churches

Pertaining to a movement in Protestant Christianity that stresses personal conversion

evangelical (plural evangelicals)

A member of an evangelical church.
- 2015 January 6, Rachel Held Evans, “What Newsweek gets wrong about evangelicals”, in CNN‎^[2]:
  Furthermore, what would otherwise be good points about the sort of selective literalism that renders homosexuality an unpardonable sin but shrugs off Sarah Palin’s biblically forbidden pearl earrings are lost in Eichenwald’s assumption that evangelicals make these decisions “with less care than they exercise in selecting side orders for lunch.”
An advocate of evangelicalism.

member of an evangelical church