evangelicalism
English
Etymology
evangelical + -ism
Noun
evangelicalism (countable and uncountable, plural evangelicalisms)
- (Christianity, historical) Lutheranism and continental Calvinism.
- (Christianity) Contemporary Protestant movement based on energetic proselytism and a renewed focus on the Bible and on the belief in its inerrancy
- (by extension, imprecise) Christian fundamentalism
- (by analogy, Islam) Islamic movements which are based on preaching and proselytism (dawah)
- 2010, Timothy Parsons, The Rule of Empires: Those Who Built Them, Those Who Endured Them, and Why They Always Fall, page 108
- Islamic evangelicalism helped win over Iberian notables […]
- 2010, Timothy Parsons, The Rule of Empires: Those Who Built Them, Those Who Endured Them, and Why They Always Fall, page 108
Translations
Lutheranism and continental Calvinism
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contemporary movement
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