EVANGELICAL

I. adjective also evangelic Date: 1531 of, relating to, or being in agreement with the Christian gospel especially as it is presented in the four Gospels, protestant , emphasizing salvation by faith in the atoning death of Jesus Christ through personal conversion, the authority of Scripture, and the importance of preaching as contrasted with ritual, 4. of or relating to the Evangelical Church in Germany, of, adhering to, or marked by fundamentalism ; fundamentalist, Low Church , marked by militant or crusading zeal ; evangelistic , Evangelicalism noun ~ly adverb II. noun Usage: often capitalized Date: 1532 one holding ~ principles or belonging to an ~ party or church