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 Evangelist in the Anglican Communion is a lay person who has received professional training in Christian outreach ministry, and been commissioned by episcopal authority. In practice, almost all those formally admitted to the office of ...
, a commissioned office in the ministry of many Anglican provinces
* Evangelist, also known as an
itinerant preacher in Methodism
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Evangelist (Latter Day Saints), 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''
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Presiding Patriarch, a church-wide leadership office within the priesthood of Latter Day Saints
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Quorum of Seventy Evangelists, a leadership body in The Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite)
Music
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Evangelist (Bach), 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''.
Composition hist ...
'', 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
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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
''The Three Evangelists'' (''Debout les Morts'') 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 D ...
'', a 1995 novel by French author Fred Vargas
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Evangelistas Islets, 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
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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
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Evangelists (disambiguation)
Evangelists may refer to:
* Evangelists (Christianity), Christians who specialize in evangelism
* Four Evangelists, the authors of the four Gospel accounts in the New Testament
* ''The Evangelists'', a controversial play
See also
* Evangelist ( ...
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