evangelical

comparative more evangelical · superlative most evangelical

1. ChristianityPertaining to the doctrines or teachings of the Christian gospel or Christianity in general.
2. ChristianityPertaining to the gospel(s) of the Christian New Testament.
3. ChristianityProtestant; specifically Lutheran and Calvinist churches in continental Europe as well as their offshoots in North America.
4. ChristianityPertaining to a movement in Protestant Christianity that stresses personal conversion and the authority of the Bible (evangelicalism).

   “They wave their Bibles at passersby, screaming their condemnations,” writes Kurt Eichenwald of evangelical Christians.

   2015 January 6, Rachel Held Evans, “What Newsweek gets wrong about evangelicals”, in CNN

5. IslamPertaining to Islamic groups that are dedicated to dawah and preaching the Quran and sunnah.

   When the mosque came under the influence of an evangelical Muslim group (Jamaati Tableegh), the formerly congenial situation changed noticeably.

   1987, Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, Islamic Values in the United States: A Comparative Study, page 10

6. Zealously enthusiastic.

plural evangelicals

1. A member of an evangelical church.

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   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.”

   2015 January 6, Rachel Held Evans, “What Newsweek gets wrong about evangelicals”, in CNN

2. An advocate of evangelicalism.

1. Of, or relating to any of several Christian Churches that believe in the sole authority of the gospels.
2. Of, or relating to Protestant (especially Lutheran) Churches in Germany.