Definition of Evangelicalism

1. Noun. Stresses the importance of personal conversion and faith as the means of salvation.

Generic synonyms: Protestantism
Specialized synonyms: Revivalism

Definition of Evangelicalism

1. n. Adherence to evangelical doctrines; evangelism.

Definition of Evangelicalism

1. Noun. (Christianity) (historical) Lutheranism. ¹

2. Noun. (Christianity) Protestant movement basing its theology almost entirely on Scripture, which is held to be inerrant. ¹

3. Noun. Christian fundamentalism. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Evangelicalism

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Literary usage of Evangelicalism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Social Theory of Religious Education by George Albert Coe (1917)
"CHAPTER XXIII EDUCATIONAL TENDENCIES OF evangelicalism Personal religion as experience ... The term "evangelicalism" will be used in this discussion in the ..."

2. The Andover Review edited by Egbert Coffin Smyth, William Jewett Tucker, John Wesley Churchill, George Harris, Edward Young Hincks (1890)
""THE OLD evangelicalism AND THE NEW."1 • SOME of our readers will doubtless recall a household book of devotion in their parental home entitled " Morning ..."

3. The Life and Times of Anne Royall by Sarah Harvey Porter (1908)
"... Calvinism, or, as it was then more loosely and generally termed in the United States, evangelicalism. The best in that stern old Puritan faith survives ..."

4. The Church of England: A History for the People by Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones (1898)
"Outwardly, the casual observer might be tempted at times to conclude that evangelicalism had well- nigh disappeared from the Anglican communion. ..."

5. England in Transition, 1789-1832: A Study of Movements by William Law Mathieson (1920)
"But those who suspected the political bias of evangelicalism had grounds for apprehension more relevant than this. ..."

6. The Evangelical Revival in the Eighteenth Century by John Henry Overton (1886)
"METHODISM AND evangelicalism. METHODISM and evangelicalism (the necessity for using this very clumsy word needs an apology) were both TWo depart- parts of ..."

7. The Social Meaning of Modern Religious Movements in England: Being the Ely by Thomas Cuming Hall (1900)
"Moreover the party of evangelicalism had surrendered much of her vitality in ... evangelicalism was fashionable and yielded too readily to the seductions of ..."

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