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
Chastain spoke with Salon about his story and why evangelicalism needs to be understood more as an identity than a theology.
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
It is interesting to sit in conversation with this devoted disciple of evangelicalism, and occasionally to lift one's eyes from his face to the portrait of his mother which hangs above his head.
From Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality by Begbie, Harold
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