Evangelist
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Religion

  • one of the Four Evangelists
    Four Evangelists
    In Christian tradition the Four Evangelists are Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, the authors attributed with the creation of the four Gospel accounts in the New Testament that bear the following titles:*Gospel according to Matthew*Gospel according to Mark...

    , the authors of the canonical Christian Gospels in the New Testament
  • a Christian who explains his or her beliefs to a non-Christian and thereby participates in Evangelism
    Evangelism
    Evangelism refers to the practice of relaying information about a particular set of beliefs to others who do not hold those beliefs. The term is often used in reference to Christianity....

  • Evangelist (Latter Day Saints)
    Evangelist (Latter Day Saints)
    In the Latter Day Saint movement, an evangelist is an ordained office of the ministry. In some denominations of the movement, an evangelist is referred to as a patriarch . However, the latter term was deprecated by the Community of Christ after the church began ordaining women to the priesthood...

    , an office in the ministry of certain denominations in the Latter Day Saint movement
    • Presiding Patriarch, a leadership office in certain Latter Day Saint denominations that may also be referred to as the Presiding Evangelist
    • Quorum of Seventy Evangelists
      Quorum of Seventy Evangelists
      In The Church of Jesus Christ , the Quorum of Seventy Evangelists is a leadership body of the church. The prescribed duty of the evangelists is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to every nation, kindred, language, and people....

      , a leadership body in The Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite)
  • Evangelicalism
    Evangelicalism
    Evangelicalism is a Protestant Christian movement which began in Great Britain in the 1730s and gained popularity in the United States during the series of Great Awakenings of the 18th and 19th century.Its key commitments are:...

    , Christian theological view emphasizing personal conversion and the authority of the Bible.

Music

  • Evangelist (Bach)
    Evangelist (Bach)
    The Evangelist in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach is the tenor part in his oratorios and Passions who narrates the exact words of the Bible, translated by Martin Luther, in recitative, namely in the works St John Passion, St Matthew Passion, and the Christmas Oratorio, also in the St Mark...

    , the term for the tenor part in oratorios and Passions of Johann Sebastian Bach
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...

     who narrates the Bible
    Bible
    The Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...

     words in recitative
    Recitative
    Recitative , also known by its Italian name "recitativo" , is a style of delivery in which a singer is allowed to adopt the rhythms of ordinary speech...

    , namely in the Christmas Oratorio
    Christmas Oratorio
    The Christmas Oratorio BWV 248, is an oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach intended for performance in church during the Christmas season. It was written for the Christmas season of 1734 incorporating music from earlier compositions, including three secular cantatas written during 1733 and 1734 and a...

    , the St John Passion and the St Matthew Passion

Other

  • The Evangelists
    The Evangelists
    The Evangelists is a controversial play by Romanian academic and writer Alina Mungiu-Pippidi. The play received the UNITER Prize, one of Romania's most prestigious literary awards, in 1992.-Plot summary:...

    , a 1992 play by Romanian author Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
  • The Evangelists (band)
    The Evangelists (band)
    The Evangelists are a band from Donegal and Derry. .They initially got together in 2000 after Eamonn McColgan , Liam Gorry and Eoghan Holland were studying a BTEC National Diploma in Popular Music. They teamed up with the first Evangelists drummer Michael Lynch shortly after.Their first EP,...

    , an Irish rock band
  • The Three Evangelists
    The Three Evangelists
    The Three Evangelists is a 1995 novel by French author Fred Vargas, translated into English in 2006. It won the inaugural Crime Writers' Association's Duncan Lawrie International Dagger, now known as the International Dagger Award....

    , a 1995 award-winning novel by French author Fred Vargas
  • Technology evangelist
    Technology evangelist
    A technical or technology evangelist is a person who attempts to build a critical mass of support for a given technology in order to establish it as a technical standard in a market that is subject to network effects...

    , a person who attempts to build a critical mass of support for a given technology
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