evangelicalism
Americannoun
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evangelical doctrines or principles.
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adherence to evangelical principles or doctrines or to an evangelical church or party.
Etymology
Origin of evangelicalism
First recorded in 1825–35; evangelical + -ism
Vocabulary lists containing evangelicalism
Example Sentences
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For most of the history of evangelicalism, Israel was a distant concern.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025
Carter’s progressive evangelicalism was very much in that tradition.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2024
People who use the term "exvangelical" or "ex-evangelical" to describe themselves had a formative experience within evangelicalism.
From Salon • Sep. 30, 2024
Matthew Taylor, a scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies, told me that in terms of influence, Wallnau may be “the most important political theologian of evangelicalism in this century so far.”
From Slate • Sep. 25, 2024
In 1815 Lutheran Germany also, which had cast out the Pietists and the Moravian brethren as the Church of England had rejected the Wesleyans, founded the principal representative of its evangelicalism at Basel.
From Life of William Carey by Smith, George
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