American English pronunciation

How to pronounce evangelical

IPA transcription: [,ivæn'dʒɛlɪkəl]

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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”

  • 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

Usage examples

  • He became well known as a low church evangelical clergyman.
  • In Lutheran churches it can be liberal Protestant, pietist, confessional Lutheran, or evangelical Catholic.
  • Several of his songs can still be found in the Swiss Evangelical Hymn-Book.
  • He is married to Elizabeth Farah and is a conservative evangelical Christian.
  • Herzog was long active in the Evangelical Church in Germany.
  • The book firmly established Henry as one of the leading Evangelical scholars.
  • Burnett is an Evangelical Christian.
  • The Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Ghana has its headquarters in Ho.
  • Co-author Charles Stetson is a Christian Evangelical educational political activist.
  • It has also trained many Baptists who are sympathetic to the evangelical tradition.