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

Part of this reappears with no less vigour of evangelic assertion in the Auguries of Innocence, but stripped of the repellent haze of mythological form.

From William Blake A Critical Essay by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Expressly it is said of Jesus,  “he knew what was in man;” and we learn, from many circumstances in the evangelic history, that he knew the thoughts alike of plotting enemies and of fainting friends.

From The Parables of Our Lord by Arnot, William

Now, there is in the evangelic history a cumulation of testimony which belongs hardly to any other history, but which our habitual mode of reading the Scriptures sometimes causes us to overlook.

From Evidence of Christianity by Paley, William