Parson vs Evangelist - What's the difference?
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An Anglican cleric having full legal control of a parish under ecclesiastical law; a rector.
A Protestant minister.
(Christianity) An itinerant or special preacher, especially a revivalist, who conducts services in different cities or locations, now often televised.
(Bible) A writer of a gospel, especially the four New Testament Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), usually Evangelist.
(primitive Church) A person who first brought the gospel to a city or region.
(Mormon Church) A patriarch
A person marked by extreme enthusiasm for or support of any cause, particularly with regard to religion.
* 1992 , J. D. Douglas, Who's Who in Christian History , ISBN 0842310142, p. 94.
* 1994 , Frank Lambert, "Pedlar in Divinity" , ISBN 0691096163, p. 10.
* 1996 , Peter J. Conn, Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography , ISBN 0521639891, p. 149.
Parson is a related term of evangelist.
As nouns the difference between parson and evangelist
is that parson is an anglican cleric having full legal control of a parish under ecclesiastical law; a rector while evangelist is (biblical) a writer of a gospel, especially the four new testament gospels (matthew, mark, luke, and john), (also evangelist).parson
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(wikipedia parson)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* parsonage * parsondomSynonyms
* cleric * father * minister * priest * vicarAnagrams
* ----evangelist
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(en noun)- Booth, William (1829-1912) English evangelist ; founder and first general of the Salvation Army ... his subordinates being expected to give him unquestioning obedience.
- Yet in the spreading consumer market of the mid-1700s, his renditions competed with others offering a far different account of the evangelist and his message. The famous artist William Hogarth mocked Whitefield in two engravings presenting the revivalist as a religious fanatic who held sway over the superstitious lower orders.
- The film implies that the evangelist , as a type, is a fanatic, a sanctimonious prig, and ultimately a hypocrite.