: emphasizing salvation by faith in the atoning death of Jesus Christ through personal conversion, the authority of Scripture, and the importance of preaching as contrasted with ritual
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capitalized: of or relating to the Evangelical Church in Germany
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often capitalized: of, adhering to, or marked by fundamentalism : fundamentalist
: one holding evangelical principles or belonging to an evangelical party or church
Example Sentences
Adjective She is an evangelical Christian. He spoke about the project with evangelical zeal.
Recent Examples on the Web
Adjective
Yet climate skepticism remains disproportionately high among evangelical Christians, even compared with other religious groups. Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2022 Outside of partisan politics, there was one other group that held a particularly high positive view of the Court in August, white evangelical Christians. Dante Chinni, NBC News, 28 Aug. 2022 That trend is due to a lack of significant representation from a major part of each party's voter base -- Democrats often rely on Black voters and the Republican base is largely made up of evangelical white Christians. Rick Klein, ABC News, 26 Aug. 2022 Oz is ahead by 8 points among men, 10 points among rural voters, and 48 points among White evangelical Christians. Dana Blanton | Fox News, Fox News, 28 July 2022 This history continues to haunt evangelical purity culture and post-purity spaces, according to scholars like Sara Moslener, who serves both as a religion professor and the director of the After Purity Project at Central Michigan University. Audrey Clare Farley, The New Republic, 30 May 2022 Exorcism has become more mainstream in Catholic culture as well as evangelical and Pentecostal culture. Joseph P. Laycock, The Conversation, 24 May 2022 The sheer dominance of worship music within 21st-century evangelical culture means that the genre has been used outside church settings by the contemporary left as well.New York Times, 6 Apr. 2022 The satirization of evangelical Christian purity culture is spot-on, and Wynn Everett is sheer perfection as Ellen Johnson, the relentlessly cheery fellowship teacher at Willingham Academy. Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 26 Dec. 2020
Noun
First Lady Michelle Bolsonaro, a telegenic evangelical who is almost three decades younger than her husband but has not played a major role in the government’s public relations, figured prominently in Sunday’s ceremony. Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 27 July 2022 The couple had become close to Arolde de Oliveira, the owner of Flordelis’s record label—a prominent evangelical who was also a nine-term federal deputy. Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 7 June 2021 Michael Saylor’s transformation into a corporate Bitcoin evangelical started prosaically enough. Eben Shapiro, Time, 21 Mar. 2021 There are some high-profile stories of resistance, like Billy Graham’s granddaughter Jerushah Duford, an evangelical who calls herself pro-life and is voting for Mr. Biden. Elizabeth Dias, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2020 Prevo, an influential evangelical in Alaska for decades, led Anchorage Baptist Temple for 47 years before retiring in 2019. Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Oct. 2020 Falwell, a prominent evangelical, had been head of Liberty, one of the country’s largest Christian schools, since his father died in 2007. Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com, 25 Aug. 2020 Jeanine Añez, a far-right evangelical who had served as the Vice President of the Bolivian Senate, took over. Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 30 July 2020 So people who have been part of the big-tent religious institutions have been overrepresented in Congress relative to the evangelicals to this day. Tara Isabella Burton, Vox, 5 Nov. 2018 See More