e´van|gel´i|cal|ness

e|van|gel|i|cal «_EE van JEHL uh kuhl, _EHV uhn-», adjective, noun.

–adj.

1. of or according to the four Gospels or the New Testament.

2. of or having to do with the Protestant churches that emphasize Christ's atonement and man's salvation by faith as the most important parts of Christianity. Methodists and Baptists are evangelical; Unitarians and Universalists are not.

3. having to do with a movement in Protestantism during the 1700's and 1800's that placed emphasis on the need for deep personal religious experience, especially a realization of personal sin and the approach to God through Christ.

4. = evangelistic. (Cf. ↑evangelistic)

–n.

1. a person who maintains evangelical doctrines; Protestant.

2. a member of an evangelical church or party, especially a low churchman in the Church of England: »

At his theological college, Ridley Hall, Cambridge, he was thought a strong “evangelical” (Manchester Guardian Weekly).

–e´van|gel´i|cal|ly, adverb.

–e´van|gel´i|cal|ness, noun.

E|van|gel|i|cal «_EE van JEHL uh kuhl, _EHV uhn-», adjective.

1. designating those Protestant churches deriving from Lutheranism rather than Calvinism (contrasted with Reformed).

2. (in some parts of Europe) Protestant.