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ecumenical | evangelical |

As adjectives the difference between ecumenical and evangelical

is that ecumenical is (ecclesiastical) pertaining to the universal church, representing the entire christian world; interdenominational; sometimes by extension, interreligious while evangelical is of, or relating to any of several christian churches that believe in the sole authority of the gospels.

ecumenical

English

Alternative forms

* * oecumenical

Adjective

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  • (ecclesiastical) Pertaining to the universal Church, representing the entire Christian world; interdenominational; sometimes by extension, interreligious.
  • * 1999 , Dr Martyn Percy, The Guardian , 5 Jun 1999:
    • Within Europe, the church's ecumenical partnerships have demonstrated that ecclesial unity may have political resonances.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 215:
    • Nicaea has always been regarded as one of the milestones in the history of the Church, and reckoned as the first council to be styled ‘general’ or ‘oecumenical ’.
  • * 2010 , ‘Britain's ancient shame in Slovenia’, The Economist , 30 Oct 2010:
    • Rather touchingly, an ecumenical mass of reparation for the victims of the massacres was held on October 29, in the very English village of Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire. The service was led by the Catholic bishop of Northampton, with Archbishop Metropolitan Stres from Ljubljana and the Anglican bishop of Buckingham.
  • General, universal, worldwide.

    • Synonyms

    * universal, worldwide

    Derived terms

    * ecumenically * ecumenicism * ecumenicist * ecumenicity * ecumenism

    References

    evangelical

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to the gospel(s) of the Christian New Testament
  • Pertaining to the doctrines or teachings of the Christian gospel or Christianity in general.
  • Protestant; specifically, designating European churches which were originally Lutheran rather than Calvinist.
  • Pertaining to a movement in Protestant Christianity that stresses personal conversion and the authority of the Bible (evangelicalism).
  • Pertaining to Islamic groups that are dedicated to dawah and preaching the Quran and sunnah.
  • * 1987 , Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, Islamic Values in the United States: A Comparative Study , Page 10
    • When the mosque came under the influence of an evangelical Muslim group (Jamaati Tableegh), the formerly congenial situation changed noticeably.
  • Zealously enthusiastic.

    • Antonyms

    * nonevangelical

    Synonyms

    * evangelic

    Usage notes

    While evangelical may have all above meanings, it is often used now for meanings 4-5. Evangelic has only the meanings 1-3 and is now used often to differentiate these meanings from evangelicalism.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A member of an evangelical church
  • An advocate of evangelicalism

    • Related terms

    * antievangelical * evangelicalism * evangelism * evangelistic