Word Meaning

Meaning of "evangelical" and the crossword clue

- Spreading the Gospel
- Contained in, or relating to, the four Gospels; as, the evangelical history.
- Belonging to, agreeable or consonant to, or contained in, the gospel, or the truth taught in the New Testament; as, evangelical religion.
- Earnest for the truth taught in the gospel; strict in interpreting Christian doctrine; preeminetly orthodox; -- technically applied to that party in the Church of England, and in the Protestant Episcopal Church, which holds the doctrine of "Justification by Faith alone"; the Low Church party. The term is also applied to other religion bodies not regarded as orthodox.
- One of evangelical principles.