资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Evangelical \E`van*gel"ic*al\, a.
1. Contained in, or relating to, the four Gospels; as, the
evangelical history.
2. Belonging to, agreeable or consonant to, or contained in,
the gospel, or the truth taught in the New Testament; as,
evangelical religion.
3. Earnest for the truth taught in the gospel; strict in
interpreting Christian doctrine; pre["e]minetly 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.
{Evangelical Alliance}, an alliance for mutual strengthening
and common work, comprising Christians of different
denominations and countries, organized in Liverpool,
England, in 1845.
{Evangelical Church}.
(a) The Protestant Church in Germany.
(b) A church founded by a fusion of Lutherans and
Calvinists in Germany in 1817.
{Evangelical Union}, a religion sect founded in Scotland in
1843 by the Rev. James Morison; -- called also
{Morisonians}.