'Evangelical' definitions:
Definition of 'evangelical'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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"
adjective
Of or pertaining to or in keeping with the Christian gospel especially as in the first 4 books of the New Testament
adjective
Marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause [syn: evangelical, evangelistic]
Definition of 'Evangelical'
From: GCIDE
- Evangelical \E`van*gel"ic*al\, n. One of evangelical principles. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Evangelical'
From: GCIDE
- Evangelical \E`van*gel"ic*al\, a.
- 1. Contained in, or relating to, the four Gospels; as, the evangelical history. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Belonging to, agreeable or consonant to, or contained in, the gospel, or the truth taught in the New Testament; as, evangelical religion. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Having or characterized by a zealous, crusading enthusiasm for a cause. [PJC]
- 5. Adhering to a form of Christianity characterized by a conservative interpretation of the bible, but disavowing the label 'bdfundamentalist`'b8. [PJC]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'evangelical'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accepted,
- apocalyptic,
- apostolic,
- approved,
- authentic,
- authoritative,
- Biblical,
- bigoted,
- canonical,
- Christian,
- conventional,
- correct,
- creedbound,
- customary,
- dogmatic,
- evangelic,
- evangelistic,
- faithful,
- firm,
- fundamentalist,
- Gospel,
- gospel,
- hidebound,
- hyperorthodox,
- inspired,
- literal,
- literalist,
- literalistic,
- Mosaic,
- New-Testament,
- of the faith,
- Old-Testament,
- orthodox,
- orthodoxical,
- precisianist,
- precisianistic,
- proper,
- prophetic,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritanical,
- received,
- revealed,
- revelational,
- right,
- Sabbatarian,
- scriptural,
- sound,
- standard,
- staunch,
- straitlaced,
- strict,
- textual,
- textuary,
- theopneustic,
- traditional,
- traditionalistic,
- true,
- true-blue