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evangelicalism

Word definitions for evangelicalism in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context Christianity historical English) Lutheranism. 2 (context Islam English) Islamic movements which are based on dawah and preaching the Quran and sunnah. 3 (context Christianity English) Protestant movement basing its theology almost entirely ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Evangelicalism \E`van*gel"ic*al*ism\, n. Adherence to evangelical doctrines; evangelism. --G. Eliot.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. stresses the importance of personal conversion and faith as the means of salvation

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Evangelicalism (, -), Evangelical Christianity , or Evangelical Protestantism is a worldwide, transdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity maintaining that the essence of the gospel consists in the doctrine of salvation by grace through faith ...

Usage examples of evangelicalism.

Eric Stokes has convincingly shown, utilitarianism combined with the legacies of liberalism and evangelicalism as philosophies of British rule in the East stressed the rational importance of a strong executive armed with various legal and penal codes, a system of doctrines on such matters as frontiers and land rents, and everywhere an irreducible supervisory imperial authority.

They also preserved in their Calvinistic evangelicalism a trace of the Cromwellian Ponsonby, the founder of the race.