evangelic

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Joseph was familiar with family members who’d turned their backs on evangelic religion.

From Salon • Aug. 12, 2012

It is a sentiment carried across Latin America, where evangelic and Pentecostal churches are thriving.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2012

Let us show to all men not an evangelic charity which is converted into fury and hatred, but a real charity which inspires us with love, peace, indulgence, and humanity.

From Critical Examination of the Life of St. Paul by Annet, Peter

In a word evangelic tradition as it had hitherto found currency still lacked the fundamental thing in the Christology of Paul—the Incarnation doctrine.

From The Making of the New Testament by Bacon, Benjamin Wisner

Verily he opened his mouth to the evangelic lore, who in the old law was wont to open the mouths of the prophets.

From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham