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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_119191" /> == | |||
<p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' a.) [[Contained]] in, or relating to, the four Gospels; as, the evangelical history. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' a.) [[Belonging]] to, agreeable or consonant to, or contained in, the gospel, or the truth taught in the New Testament; as, evangelical religion. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' a.) [[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. </p> <p> '''(4):''' ''' (''' n.) One of evangelical principles. </p> | |||
== Charles Buck Theological Dictionary <ref name="term_19722" /> == | == Charles Buck Theological Dictionary <ref name="term_19722" /> == | ||
<p> Agreeable to the doctrines of Christianity. The term is frequently applied to those who do not rely upon moral duties as to their acceptance with God; but are influenced to action from a sense of the love of God, and depend upon the merits of | <p> Agreeable to the doctrines of Christianity. The term is frequently applied to those who do not rely upon moral duties as to their acceptance with God; but are influenced to action from a sense of the love of God, and depend upon the merits of Christ for their everlasting salvation. </p> | ||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_39506" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_39506" /> == | ||
<p> appertaining to, or characteristic of, the Gospel. </p> <p> (1.) The term "has been applied to a portion of the English | <p> appertaining to, or characteristic of, the Gospel. </p> <p> '''(1.)''' The term "has been applied to a portion of the English Church who either profess, or are supposed to know and inculcate the [[Gospel]] in an especial manner, and to give peculiar prominence to the doctrine of salvation by faith in the atonement. It is probably true that among this portion of the Church of [[England]] many, but not all maintain the peculiar doctrines of Calvinism; and there may have been a time when (in the opinion of some) lower views of the sacraments and of Church authority prevailed among them than what are generally received among other members of that Church. Very many persons lament the use of this term, and consider that, like all party appellations, it tends to perpetuate division in the Church; accordingly, they desire that it should be disused as a party term, and carefully confined to its original meaning" (Eden). </p> <p> '''(2.)''' In Prussia, the United [[Established]] Church (since 1817) has been called the "Evangelical Church." (See [[Prussia]] And United [[Evangelical]] Church). </p> <p> '''(3.)''' In England and [[America]] the term "evangelical" is frequently used to distinguish those churches which believe in the divinity of Christ and the atonement from those that do not. </p> | ||
== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_72949" /> == | == The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_72949" /> == | ||
<p> A term applied to all those forms of [[Christianity]] which regard the atonement of Christ, or His sacrifice on the | <p> A term applied to all those forms of [[Christianity]] which regard the atonement of Christ, or His sacrifice on the Cross for sin, as the ground and central principle of the Christian faith. </p> | ||
==References == | ==References == | ||
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<ref name="term_119191"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/webster-s-dictionary/evangelical Evangelical from Webster's Dictionary]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_19722"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/charles-buck-theological-dictionary/evangelical Evangelical from Charles Buck Theological Dictionary]</ref> | <ref name="term_19722"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/charles-buck-theological-dictionary/evangelical Evangelical from Charles Buck Theological Dictionary]</ref> | ||
<ref name="term_39506"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/evangelical Evangelical from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | <ref name="term_39506"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/evangelical Evangelical from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | ||
