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Evangelical
- Literally, anything contained in the four gospels
of the New Testament. Also refers to Protestant churches
that emphasize salvation by faith rather then good
works, and that individuals are in direct contact
with God without the need of mediation or religious
education through a priest.
Referring to Protestant Christians who spread the
Christian Gospel as found in the biblical New Testament;
A
denomination formed to distinguish a more liberal
subset of Bible-believing evangelicals from conservative
anti-modern fundamentalists in the 1940s and 1950s
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