evangelicalism

[ ee-van-jel-i-kuh-liz-uhm, ev-uhn- ]

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noun

evangelical doctrines or principles.
adherence to evangelical principles or doctrines or to an evangelical church or party.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of evangelicalism¹

First recorded in 1825–35; evangelical + -ism

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It's an ideology so far afield from the radical evangelicalism of the contemporary American right that I have to ask him what he thinks about what Christian identity looks like in our country right now.

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White evangelicalism has never been about morality or even really faith, but identity — specifically Whiteness.

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Carter’s progressive evangelicalism was very much in that tradition.

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In particular, people are leaving white evangelicalism, due to the inherently political nature of those spaces.

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They created the theologies and the propaganda that made Trump palatable to broader American evangelicalism.

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evangelical Evangeline

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