Evangelist may refer to:
Religion
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Four Evangelists, the authors of the canonical Christian Gospels
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Evangelism
In Christianity, evangelism (or witnessing) is the act of preaching the gospel with the intention of sharing the message and teachings of Jesus Christ.
Christians who specialize in evangelism are often known as evangelists, whether they are i ...
, publicly preaching the Gospel with the intention of spreading the teachings of Jesus Christ
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Evangelist (Anglican Church), a commissioned office in the ministry of many Anglican provinces
* Evangelist, also known as an
itinerant preacher
An itinerant preacher (also known as an itinerant minister or evangelist or circuit rider) is a Christian evangelist who preaches the basic Christian redemption message while traveling around to different groups of people within a relatively shor ...
in Methodism
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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 ...
, an ordained office in the ministry in the Latter Day Saint movement
* Evangelist, a character in John Bunyan's 1678 book ''
The Pilgrim's Progress
''The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come'' is a 1678 Christian allegory written by John Bunyan. It is regarded as one of the most significant works of theological fiction in English literature and a progenitor of ...
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Presiding Patriarch
In the Latter Day Saint movement, the Presiding Patriarch (also called Presiding Evangelist, Patriarch over the Church, Patriarch of the Church, or Patriarch to the Church) is a church-wide leadership office within the priesthood. Among the duties ...
, a church-wide leadership office within the priesthood of Latter Day Saints
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Quorum of Seventy Evangelists
In The Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite), 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
Jesus, likely from he, יֵשׁוּעַ ...
, a leadership body in The Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite)
Music
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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 secco. The part appears in the works ''St John Passion'', ''S ...
, tenor part in Bach's oratorios and Passions who narrates the Bible
* The narrator in works by other composers, e.g. Heinrich Schütz's
Weinachtshistorie, Matthäuspassion, Lukaspassion
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Der Evangelimann
''Der Evangelimann'' (''The Evangelist'') is an opera in two acts by the Austrian composer Wilhelm Kienzl. The libretto, by the composer, is based on short story "". It was adapted in 1924 as a silent film '' The Evangelist''.
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'', an opera by Austrian composer Wilhelm Kienzl
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''The Evangelist'' (album), an album by Robert Forster
Other
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The Evangelist (1916 film)
The Evangelist is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by Barry O'Neil based on the play by Henry Arthur Jones. It stars Gladys Hanson and Walter Law.
Cast
Production
The film was produced by the Lubin Manufacturing Company and distrib ...
, a silent film directed by Barry O'Neil
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''The Evangelist'' (1924 film), a German silent drama film
* ''The Evangelist'', journal of
Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet, playwright and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels ''Ivanhoe'', ''Rob Roy (n ...
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The Evangelists
''The Evangelists'' (''Evangheliştii'' in Romanian) 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
The p ...
'', a 1992 play by Romanian author Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
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The Three Evangelists'', a 1995 novel by French author Fred Vargas
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Evangelistas Islets
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The Evangelistas Islets (Spanish: ''Islotes Evangelistas'') comprise a group of four small, rocky islands lying on the Chilean continental shelf, some 30 km north-west of the western entrance to the Strait of Magellan, in the south ...
, at the west mouth of the Strait of Magellan
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Technology evangelist
A technology evangelist is a person who builds a critical mass of support for a given technology, and then establishes it as a technical standard in a market that is subject to network effects. The word ''evangelism'' is borrowed from the context ...
, a person who attempts to build support for a given technology
See also
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Evangelicalism
Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that affirms the centrality of being " born again", in which an individual exper ...
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Evangelical Lutheran
Lutheranism is one of the largest branches of Protestantism, identifying primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Catholic Church launched th ...
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Evangelists (disambiguation)
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