Crossword clues for evangelic
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Evangelic \E`van*gel"ic\, a. [L. evangelicus, Gr. e'yaggeliko`s:
cf. F. ['e]vang['e]lique. See Evangel.]
Belonging to, or contained in, the gospel; evangelical.
``Evangelic truth.''
--J. Foster.
Wiktionary
a. evangelical
Wikipedia
Evangelic or evangelical means "to be rooted in the gospels" from the or (from εὖ eu, "good" + ἀγγελία angelía, "message"). This is the core meaning in theology that can be found in terms like the Evangelical Counsels. "Evangelical" can also be the adjective to Evangelicalism. As this has become the common meaning in English by now, evangelic (from , or ) is often used for the original meaning. This makes the use of the adjective "evangelical" rather confusing if the context is unknown.
Usage examples of "evangelic".
John Huss and the Bohemians many are certainly most Christian and evangelic, and cannot be condemned by the universal church.
A series of facts of Evangelic history which have no parallel in the accounts of our Synoptists, and are certainly legendary, may be put together from the epistle of Barnabas, Justin, the second epistle of Clement, Papias, the Gospel to the Hebrews, and the Gospel to the Egyptians.
The Evangelic history as handed down is not the history of Christ, but a collection of allegoric representations of the great history of God and the world.
Evangelic symbols depict the Magi guided by a Star and bearing gift, 730-l.
Kabalistic process of creation, 766-769 Kabalistic secrets contained in the ternarys of the Evangelic Symbols, 730-l.
Secrets of the Kabala contained in the ternarys of the Evangelic Symbols, 730-l.
The people of England must think so when these praters affect to carry back the clergy to that primitive, evangelic poverty which, in the spirit, ought always to exist in them (and in us, too, however we may like it), but in the thing must be varied when the relation of that body to the state is altered-- when manners, when modes of life, when indeed the whole order of human affairs has undergone a total revolution.
Besides the genera design of fixing on a perpetual basis the divine honors of Christ, the most ancient and respectable of the ecclesiastical writers have ascribed to the evangelic theologian a particular intention to confute two opposite heresies, which disturbed the peace of the primitive church.
But if the parallel be confined to the extent and number of their evangelic victories the success of Constantine might perhaps equal that of the Apostles themselves.