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单词 evangelical
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Definition of evangelical in English:

evangelical

adjective ɛvanˈdʒɛlɪk(ə)liːvanˈdʒɛlɪk(ə)lˌivænˈdʒɛlək(ə)l
  • 1Of or according to the teaching of the gospel or the Christian religion.

    (按照)福音的;(按照)基督教教义的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The emotions had no part in this, and neither did the central authority of the evangelical tradition, Scripture.
    • In the judgment of this reviewer, the absence at times leaves the work looking a bit more like a dictionary of education than an evangelical dictionary of Christian education.
    • Problems arise, however, when evangelicals and evangelical theology limit the gospel's view of salvation.
    • However, in Eastern Europe since the end of the communist regimes Catholic, Orthodox, and evangelical religion, as well as new religious sects, have witnessed a remarkable revival.
    • Other evangelical scholars are also teaching and writing on this subject.
    • Religion Watch is a useful newsletter that patrols the latest things in American, mainly evangelical, religion.
    • A number of attempts have been made to explain the hostility to religious and especially to evangelical Christian beliefs.
    • As a general rule, the teaching of preaching will probably be of greater importance in seminaries where the mission emphasis is evangelical or doctrinal in nature.
    Synonyms
    scriptural, biblical, Bible-believing, fundamentalist, orthodox
    1. 1.1 Of or denoting a tradition within Protestant Christianity emphasizing the authority of the Bible, personal conversion, and the doctrine of salvation by faith in the Atonement.
      基督教新教传统的(强调《圣经》的权威性、个人的皈依以及通过笃信神人合一来实现救赎的教义)
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It also generated its fair share of controversy, mostly from fundamentalist and evangelical Christians who thought their belief system was being openly mocked by the film.
      • In recent decades, evangelical Protestant missionaries have converted many in Ecuador, especially in the countryside and urban slums.
      • The authors describe three different camps within CCM, which correspond to divisions within evangelical Christianity.
      • The conversion of residents to Christianity occurred after the London Missionary School sent evangelical Protestant missionaries to Tahiti in 1797.
      • Countries such as Brazil, Chile, and Guatemala have a strong evangelical and Protestant tradition.
      • I have spent most of my life, including my academic life, within the evangelical Protestant community.
      • Even fundamentalist evangelical Christians don't agree on what's going on.
      • Today five of his eight brothers are evangelical Christians, as are both his sisters.
      • An increasingly common structural problem for community management in the Lower Amazon is related to the spread of Protestant evangelical faiths.
      • Glasgow as a whole gained a reputation as the model of a Christian city in action - as a city which instituted social reform within a respected Protestant evangelical framework.
      • But within Pristina there are three Protestant - broadly evangelical - churches.
      • It is common in evangelical Protestant circles for converts to witness to their faith by recounting their experience of conversion.
      • It was the glory of the evangelical gospel, but no longer can you make that assumption.
      • Nothing now could hold John Wesley back from his God-given call to preach the evangelical gospel.
      • For whom did the editors think Jesus wanted evangelical Christians to vote?
      • My mother was an evangelical Christian, a fundamentalist.
      • But that kind of clarification of my understanding of biblical teaching for evangelical groups has usually been a preface to a plea for sexual humility.
      • On the other hand, thousands of evangelical Christians, spiritualists and Swedenborgians continued to affirm that they had literally heard God's voice.
      • Christians, even evangelical fundamentalists, are not all beyond hope.
      • The question of whether innovation belongs in religion is at the heart of the debate in many evangelical churches over Christian contemporary music.
      Synonyms
      evangelistic, evangelizing, missionary, crusading, propagandist, propagandizing, converting, proselytizing, televangelical
      informal Bible-bashing, Bible-thumping, Bible-punching
    2. 1.2 Zealous in advocating or supporting a particular cause.
      she was evangelical about organic farming
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I get coffee and they get evangelical support from me and everyone I can convince to drink their coffee.
      • Whilst the advocates of quality and empowerment are almost evangelical in their quest to change the way we work those on the receiving end are considerably more sceptical.
      • I started off implacably opposed to this and now I am almost evangelical in my support.
noun ɛvanˈdʒɛlɪk(ə)liːvanˈdʒɛlɪk(ə)lˌivænˈdʒɛlək(ə)l
  • A member of the evangelical tradition in the Christian Church.

    福音会教徒

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It's interesting that now he is considered to be a leader by both evangelicals and Catholics.
    • Not all Catholics are conservative on the social issues that matter to evangelicals.
    • At the same time, such acknowledgment raises a problem for both evangelicals and Catholics.
    • The world mocks us evangelicals for saying we harangue men when we tell them they must go to Jesus Christ.
    • Most evangelicals will respond to this basic thesis with hesitation, if only because of its novelty.
    • It is sad that evangelicals have often despised the theology of the confessing churches.
    • There are a lot of recovering evangelicals at the church, and many of them are friends from Bethel College.
    • These gatherings are a major event for professed evangelicals in the Church of England.
    • Such statements bear the mark of a wan hope that evangelicals and Pentecostals should be other than who they are.
    • In one sense, the priority of the Word among evangelicals may be its most distinctive trait.
    • The contributors make the moves one expects from conservative evangelicals.
    • Do you believe that evangelicals should strive to reach unreached peoples with the gospel?
    • The sad truth is that many evangelicals had no problems with what was said.
    • Why evangelicals should object to confessions of faith I am at a loss to understand.
    • We're both evangelicals, and this therefore shouldn't be an issue that divides the church.
    • Now, evangelicals have filled churches with a gospel that lacks a call to repentance.
    • When it comes to the life of the mind, in other words, we evangelicals continue to have our problems.
    • Its success also contributed to bitter divisions between the high church or catholic grouping and the low church or evangelicals.
    • It also gave a first-hand account of the priorities of conservative evangelicals within the Anglican Communion.
    • The arena on which evangelicals and Catholics meet is certainly global in scope.

Derivatives

  • evangelic

  • adjective
    • The preacher was a popular southern evangelic reverend who was talking about being saved.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • More specifically it pointed to its lack of goals as a empire, which I don't fully agree with as it seems to overlook late capitalism as an ideology, and globalisation as its evangelic / missionary form.
      • In this way, the perspective of vernacular rhetoric reveals that the explicitly evangelic prayer form also functions as an invitation for group insiders to perform previously shared values.
      • When a clown and an evangelic preacher wander into Ted's domain of the W.C. he forces them to dismantle their public masks and face the consequences of their beliefs and actions.
      • David Taylor's diplomatic skills are as finely honed as any and he is unreservedly evangelic about the joint Scottish-Irish attempt.
  • evangelicalism

  • noun ɛvanˈdʒɛlɪk(ə)lɪz(ə)mˌiːvanˈdʒɛlɪk(ə)lɪz(ə)mˌiˌvænˈdʒɛləkəˌlɪzəm
    • He saw the Protestant movement and evangelicalism as an offshoot of one of the lungs, and therefore not urgent on the agenda.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Overall, how did this papacy influence Protestantism, particularly evangelicalism?
      • The plurality of roots feeding both Pentecostalism and evangelicalism explains, at least in part, the diversity of both movements today.
      • Here we have medieval Augustinian evangelicalism at its most pure and sublime.
      • Historic Protestantism is different from evangelicalism in its current incarnation.
  • evangelically

  • adverb ˌɛvanˈdʒɛlɪk(ə)liˌiːvanˈdʒɛlɪk(ə)liˌiˌvænˈdʒɛlək(ə)li
    • The reform movement quickly attracted a huge following and, with the zeal of converts, former Roman followers adopted the new creed evangelically.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Many honestly want to know and serve God, and the vitality of evangelically minded groups attracts them.
      • The bishops, demoralized by scandal, evangelically illiterate, walked peri passu with the warmaking state.
      • The book comes from the evangelically robust Anglican sector in Australia.
      • In fact, he's looking forward to creating a ‘pipeline’ to hire evangelically minded Harvard Ph.D.s for teaching positions at his university in Waco, Texas.

Origin

Mid 16th century: via ecclesiastical Latin from ecclesiastical Greek euangelikos, from euangelos (see evangel).

Rhymes

angelical, helical

Definition of evangelical in US English:

evangelical

adjectiveˌivænˈdʒɛlək(ə)lˌēvanˈjelək(ə)l
  • 1Of or according to the teaching of the gospel or the Christian religion.

    (按照)福音的;(按照)基督教教义的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • However, in Eastern Europe since the end of the communist regimes Catholic, Orthodox, and evangelical religion, as well as new religious sects, have witnessed a remarkable revival.
    • A number of attempts have been made to explain the hostility to religious and especially to evangelical Christian beliefs.
    • Other evangelical scholars are also teaching and writing on this subject.
    • Religion Watch is a useful newsletter that patrols the latest things in American, mainly evangelical, religion.
    • As a general rule, the teaching of preaching will probably be of greater importance in seminaries where the mission emphasis is evangelical or doctrinal in nature.
    • Problems arise, however, when evangelicals and evangelical theology limit the gospel's view of salvation.
    • The emotions had no part in this, and neither did the central authority of the evangelical tradition, Scripture.
    • In the judgment of this reviewer, the absence at times leaves the work looking a bit more like a dictionary of education than an evangelical dictionary of Christian education.
    Synonyms
    scriptural, biblical, bible-believing, fundamentalist, orthodox
    1. 1.1 Of or denoting a tradition within Protestant Christianity emphasizing the authority of the Bible, personal conversion, and the doctrine of salvation by faith in the Atonement.
      基督教新教传统的(强调《圣经》的权威性、个人的皈依以及通过笃信神人合一来实现救赎的教义)
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But within Pristina there are three Protestant - broadly evangelical - churches.
      • For whom did the editors think Jesus wanted evangelical Christians to vote?
      • The conversion of residents to Christianity occurred after the London Missionary School sent evangelical Protestant missionaries to Tahiti in 1797.
      • It also generated its fair share of controversy, mostly from fundamentalist and evangelical Christians who thought their belief system was being openly mocked by the film.
      • On the other hand, thousands of evangelical Christians, spiritualists and Swedenborgians continued to affirm that they had literally heard God's voice.
      • It was the glory of the evangelical gospel, but no longer can you make that assumption.
      • The authors describe three different camps within CCM, which correspond to divisions within evangelical Christianity.
      • But that kind of clarification of my understanding of biblical teaching for evangelical groups has usually been a preface to a plea for sexual humility.
      • Even fundamentalist evangelical Christians don't agree on what's going on.
      • Glasgow as a whole gained a reputation as the model of a Christian city in action - as a city which instituted social reform within a respected Protestant evangelical framework.
      • Today five of his eight brothers are evangelical Christians, as are both his sisters.
      • Countries such as Brazil, Chile, and Guatemala have a strong evangelical and Protestant tradition.
      • Nothing now could hold John Wesley back from his God-given call to preach the evangelical gospel.
      • In recent decades, evangelical Protestant missionaries have converted many in Ecuador, especially in the countryside and urban slums.
      • Christians, even evangelical fundamentalists, are not all beyond hope.
      • It is common in evangelical Protestant circles for converts to witness to their faith by recounting their experience of conversion.
      • My mother was an evangelical Christian, a fundamentalist.
      • The question of whether innovation belongs in religion is at the heart of the debate in many evangelical churches over Christian contemporary music.
      • An increasingly common structural problem for community management in the Lower Amazon is related to the spread of Protestant evangelical faiths.
      • I have spent most of my life, including my academic life, within the evangelical Protestant community.
      Synonyms
      evangelistic, evangelizing, missionary, crusading, propagandist, propagandizing, converting, proselytizing, televangelical
    2. 1.2 Zealous in advocating something.
      狂热的;热衷的
      she was evangelical about organic farming
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Whilst the advocates of quality and empowerment are almost evangelical in their quest to change the way we work those on the receiving end are considerably more sceptical.
      • I get coffee and they get evangelical support from me and everyone I can convince to drink their coffee.
      • I started off implacably opposed to this and now I am almost evangelical in my support.
nounˌivænˈdʒɛlək(ə)lˌēvanˈjelək(ə)l
  • A member of the evangelical tradition in the Christian Church.

    福音会教徒

    Example sentencesExamples
    • When it comes to the life of the mind, in other words, we evangelicals continue to have our problems.
    • Why evangelicals should object to confessions of faith I am at a loss to understand.
    • Its success also contributed to bitter divisions between the high church or catholic grouping and the low church or evangelicals.
    • It's interesting that now he is considered to be a leader by both evangelicals and Catholics.
    • Such statements bear the mark of a wan hope that evangelicals and Pentecostals should be other than who they are.
    • The contributors make the moves one expects from conservative evangelicals.
    • Now, evangelicals have filled churches with a gospel that lacks a call to repentance.
    • Do you believe that evangelicals should strive to reach unreached peoples with the gospel?
    • The world mocks us evangelicals for saying we harangue men when we tell them they must go to Jesus Christ.
    • Most evangelicals will respond to this basic thesis with hesitation, if only because of its novelty.
    • Not all Catholics are conservative on the social issues that matter to evangelicals.
    • These gatherings are a major event for professed evangelicals in the Church of England.
    • The sad truth is that many evangelicals had no problems with what was said.
    • It also gave a first-hand account of the priorities of conservative evangelicals within the Anglican Communion.
    • The arena on which evangelicals and Catholics meet is certainly global in scope.
    • In one sense, the priority of the Word among evangelicals may be its most distinctive trait.
    • It is sad that evangelicals have often despised the theology of the confessing churches.
    • At the same time, such acknowledgment raises a problem for both evangelicals and Catholics.
    • We're both evangelicals, and this therefore shouldn't be an issue that divides the church.
    • There are a lot of recovering evangelicals at the church, and many of them are friends from Bethel College.

Origin

Mid 16th century: via ecclesiastical Latin from ecclesiastical Greek euangelikos, from euangelos (see evangel).

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