evangelicalism

Etymology

evangelical + -ism

noun

  1. (Christianity, historical) Lutheranism and continental Calvinism.
  2. (Christianity) Contemporary Protestant movement based on energetic proselytism and a renewed focus on the Bible and in the belief in its inerrancy.
  3. (by extension, imprecise) Christian fundamentalism.
  4. (by analogy, Islam) Islamic movements which are based on preaching and proselytism (dawah).
    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

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