A form of Christian faith emphasizing the authority of the Bible, Jesus's death and resurrection, and the importance of being 'born again' through conversion.
From 'evangelic' plus the suffix '-alism' (a system or practice), which became common in English for naming religious movements and ideologies. The movement crystallized in the 18th-19th centuries.
Evangelicalism has become the largest branch of Protestantism globally, yet the word itself only emerged in modern form around the 1700s when the movement took shape.
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