Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Evangelical beliefs or doctrines.
- noun Adherence to a church or party professing evangelical beliefs or doctrines.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Adherence to and insistence upon evangelical doctrines, especially in the Church of England: sometimes employed as a term of opprobrium.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Adherence to evangelical doctrines; evangelism.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Christianity (
historical )Lutheranism . - noun Christianity Protestant movement basing its theology almost entirely on Scripture, which is held to be
inerrant . - noun Christian
fundamentalism .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun stresses the importance of personal conversion and faith as the means of salvation
Etymologies
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Examples
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Corporate-owned evangelicalism is the major threat to our survival as a free people.
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Fundamentalist evangelicalism is behind this movement, as it is in so many other regressive fascistic movements.
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My view of evangelicalism is not authoritative or infallible.
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Corporate-owned evangelicalism is the major threat to our survival as a free people.
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Corporate evangelicalism is an abomination and a disgrace.
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Having opted to grow on secular terms, American evangelicalism is becoming less hostile to liberal ideas such as tolerance and pluralism.
And The Winner Is... 2008
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Having opted to grow on secular terms, American evangelicalism is becoming less hostile to liberal ideas such as tolerance and pluralism.
And The Winner Is... 2008
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There are two other dominionist sects within evangelicalism that have escaped in-depth scrutiny from the Left.
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Again, it’s the sick and twisted Calvinist virus running rampant in evangelicalism today.
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“Because there’s no central hierarchy in evangelicalism, the NAE has provided a convenient reference point for those outside of the community for a pulse on what evangelicals are thinking,” said Lindsay, author of Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite.
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