evangelicalism

[ ee-van-jel-i-kuh-liz-uhm, ev-uhn- ]

noun

1. evangelical doctrines or principles.
2. adherence to evangelical principles or doctrines or to an evangelical church or party.

Word History and Origins

Origin of evangelicalism¹

First recorded in 1825–35; evangelical + -ism

Example Sentences

Looking back, I see how I didn’t have the strongest container in my family but evangelicalism gave me a worldview to live in.

From The Daily Beast

Evangelicalism was the vessel that brought me to be a believer.

From The Daily Beast

A second coming of Rapture-minded evangelicalism is always one catastrophe, book, revival, or Nicolas Cage movie away.

From The Daily Beast

Conservative evangelicalism is losing millennials in gobs, and the World Vision fallout is sure to only accelerate the fallout.

From The Daily Beast

But the World Vision scandal is just the latest indication that the “big tent” of Cold War evangelicalism has collapsed.

From The Daily Beast

And on the edges of evangelicalism, where alertness to “New Age” influence runs high, concern has bloomed into outrage.

From The Daily Beast

The divide between American evangelicalism and science is great and shows no signs of diminishing.

From The Daily Beast

The collision in the drama is not at all between "bigoted churchmanship" and evangelicalism, but between irreligion and religion.

From Project Gutenberg

Certainly, Evangelicalism had made way in the Establishment, and was not regarded as it had been in days gone by.

From Project Gutenberg

Failure to see this is the cause of a very serious breakdown in modern evangelicalism.

From Project Gutenberg

The noble anti-slavery movement must be excepted, for it was very directly connected with evangelicalism.

From Project Gutenberg

He was tolerant of all religious forms, but with a natural bias towards Anglican Evangelicalism.

From Project Gutenberg