Crossword clues for evangelist
evangelist
- Second part
- A preacher of the Christian gospel
- Any of the spiritual leaders who re assumed to be authors of the New Testament Gospels
- Greek who scored in first part of extra time to become preacher
- One adopting the missionary position?
- Zealous believer of Everlasting King taken out and shot
- Welshman wrapping one leg around head of travelling preacher
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
evangelist \e*van"gel*ist\ ([-e]*v[a^]n"j[e^]l*[i^]st), n. [F. A bringer of the glad tidings of Church and his doctrines. Specifically:
A missionary preacher sent forth to prepare the way for a resident pastor; an itinerant missionary preacher.
A writer of one of the four Gospels (With the definite article); as, the four evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
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A traveling preacher whose efforts are chiefly directed to arouse to immediate repentance.
The Apostles, so far as they evangelized, might claim the title though there were many evangelists who were not Apostles.
--Plumptre.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 12c., "Matthew, Mark, Luke or John," from Old French evangelist and directly from Late Latin evangelista, from Greek euangelistes "preacher of the gospel," literally "bringer of good news," from euangelizesthai "bring good news," from eu- "good" (see eu-) + angellein "announce," from angelos "messenger" (see angel).\n
\nIn early Greek Christian texts, the word was used of the four traditional authors of the narrative gospels. Meaning "itinerant preacher" was another early Church usage, revived in Middle English (late 14c.). Classical Greek euangelion meant "the reward of good tidings;" sense transferred in Christian use to the glad tidings themselves. In Late Latin, Greek eu- regularly was consonantized to ev- before vowels.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context Christianity English) An itinerant or special preacher, especially a revivalist, who conducts services in different cities or locations, now often televised. 2 (context Bible English) A writer of a gospel, especially the four New Testament Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), ''usually'' Evangelist. 3 (context primitive Church English) A person who first brought the gospel to a city or region. 4 (context Mormon Church English) A patriarch 5 A person marked by extreme enthusiasm for or support of any cause, particularly with regard to religion.
WordNet
n. a preacher of the Christian gospel [syn: revivalist, gospeler, gospeller]
(when capitalized) any of the spiritual leaders who are assumed to be authors of the Gospels in the New Testament: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
Wikipedia
In the Latter Day Saint movement, an evangelist is an ordained office of the ministry. In some denominations of the movement, an evangelist is referred to as a patriarch. However, the latter term was deprecated by the Community of Christ after the church began ordaining women to the priesthood. Other denominations, such as The Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite), have an evangelist position independent of the original "patriarch" office instituted movement founder Joseph Smith.
The Evangelist in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach is the tenor part in his oratorios and Passions who narrates the exact words of the Bible, translated by Martin Luther, in recitative secco. The part appears in the works St John Passion, St Matthew Passion, and the Christmas Oratorio, as well as the St Mark Passion and the Ascension Oratorio Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen, BWV 11. Some cantatas also contain recitatives of Bible quotations, assigned to the tenor voice.
Bach followed a tradition using the tenor for the narrator of a gospel. It exists (and is also often called the Evangelist) in earlier works setting biblical narration, for example by Heinrich Schütz ( Weinachtshistorie, Matthäuspassion, Lukaspassion, Johannespassion).
In contrast, the vox Christi, voice of Christ, is always the bass in Bach's works, including several cantatas.
Usage examples of "evangelist".
Dismounting before it, each knight avouched the justice of his cause by a solemn oath on the Evangelists, and prayed that his success might be according to the truth or falsehood of what he then swore.
But what I could not, and probably never shall, understand, was the reason for which the Fathers, who were not so simple or so ignorant as our Evangelists, did not feel able to deny the divinity of oracles, and, in order to get out of the difficulty, ascribed them to the devil.
The idea of Dazy Perrit being pestered by a blackmailer was about the same as Billy Sunday being pestered by an evangelist trying to convert him.
At midnight, Brother Odum Tate, itinerant nondenominational evangelist, kneels in the dry sedge just east of the highway.
Suicides, crime waves, orgies, messiahs, evangelists and everything bad and futile you could think of.
As a matter of fact, there seems to be no doubt now that Luke had been, before he became an Evangelist, a practising physician in Malta of considerable experience.
Evangelist, it occurs to Kraft as he tucks back a reticent bundle of tibialis anterior, did not know his ass from the proverbial pothole.
The wide architrave surrounding it was carved and gilded, with cherubim set at the corners and the symbols of the four evangelists ranged across the lintel.
Luke the Evangelist, and after Matins, Peter, son of John, died of the same plague.
God-blessed starets was a mythic part of Russian culture, just as an American evangelist had to have a swept-back, blow-dried pompadour, drive a Cadillac, and use his hands as if he were chopping the air into blocks.
This quick survey of story settings does not address the contradiction that John has Jesus crucified on Passover Eve, while the paschal lambs are being slaughtered in the Temple, whereas the synoptic evangelists place it on the day after, on the first day of Passover itself.
We might also note that this latter element of the scene evolves as we progress from one synoptic evangelist to the next.
God Almighty, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and of the holy canons, and of the undefiled Virgin Mary, the mother and patroness of our Saviour, and of all the celestial virtues, angels, archangels, thrones, dominions, powers, cherubims and seraphims, and of the holy patriarchs, prophets, and of all the apostles and evangelists, and of the holy innocents who in the sight of the Holy Lamb are found worthy to sing the new song, of the holy martyrs and holy confessors, and of the holy virgins, and of all the saints, and together with all the holy and elect of God: we excommunicate and anathematise him or them, malefactor or malefactors, and from the threshold of the holy church of God Almighty we sequester them, that he or they may be tormented, disposed and delivered over with Dathan and Abiram, with those who say to the Lord God, Depart from us, we desire not Thy ways.
The Communications Center also contained a computerised printing plant, the press for records, recording studio, and four mainframe computers hooked into the Worldwide Evangelist Information Network.
Greek Emperor, with his thanks, sent him a great Gospel-book richly decorated, no doubt, with those splendid Eusebian canons and portraits of the Evangelists, the like of which we see in the Byzantine examples still preserved at Paris, in London, and elsewhere.