Evangelist Definition

ĭ-vănjə-lĭst
evangelists
noun
evangelists
Any of the four writers of the Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John.
Webster's New World
A revivalist or a preacher who holds large public services in various cities, now often televised.
Webster's New World
One who practices evangelism, especially a Protestant preacher or missionary.
American Heritage
One who promulgates or promotes something enthusiastically.
American Heritage
(primitive Church) A person who first brought the gospel to a city or region.
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Singular:
evangelist
Plural:
evangelists

Origin of Evangelist

  • From Old French evangeliste, from ecclesiastical Latin evangelista, from ecclesiastical Ancient Greek εὐαγγελιστής (euangelistes, “bringer of good news”), from εὐαγγελίζεσθαι (euangelizesthai, “to evangelize”), from εὐάγγελος (euangelos, “bringing good news”), from εὖ (eu, “well”) + ἀγγέλλειν (angelein, “to announce”).

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Evangelist Sentence Examples

  • The evangelist is conscious of this aim.

  • To the right are figures of St Peter, St Bartholomew and St Ursula; and to the left, St Paul, St John the Evangelist and St Andrew.

  • The evangelist's phraseology is indeed affected to some extent by the rhetorical style of the period when he wrote.

  • Thus the recent defenders of the apostolic authorship, the Unitarian James Drummond (1903), the Anglican William Sanday (1905), the Roman Catholic Theodore Calmes (1904), can tell us, the first, that " the evangelist did not aim at an illustrative picture of what was most characteristic of Jesus "; the second, that " the author sank into his own consciousness and at last brought to light what he found there "; the third, that " the Gospel contains an entire theological system," " history is seen through the intervening dogmatic development," " the Samaritan woman is.

  • Even if the common beliefs of the apostolic age have not modified the evangelist's reports of Jesus' teaching, it must be remembered that He used the common prophetic phraseology, the literal fulfilment of which is not to be looked for.

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