Evangelist(s) may refer to:
Religion
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Four Evangelists
In Christian tradition, the Four Evangelists are Matthew the Apostle, Matthew, Mark the Evangelist, Mark, Luke the Evangelist, Luke, and John the Evangelist, John, the authors attributed with the creation of the four canonical Gospel accounts ...
, the authors of the canonical Christian Gospels
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Evangelism
Evangelism, or witnessing, is the act of sharing the Christian gospel, the message and teachings of Jesus Christ. It is typically done with the intention of converting others to Christianity. Evangelism can take several forms, such as persona ...
, 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) is a Christian evangelist who preaches the basic Christian redemption message while traveling around to different groups of people within a relatively short period of time. The usage of ...
in Methodism
* Evangelist, another term for a
Revivalist
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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
''The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come'' is a 1678 Christian allegory written by John Bunyan. It is commonly regarded as one of the most significant works of Protestant devotional literature and of wider early moder ...
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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 dut ...
, 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)
The Evangelist in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach is the tenor part in his oratorios and Passions who narrates the exact words of one of the Four Evangelists of the Bible, translated by Martin Luther, in recitative secco. The part appears in t ...
, 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'', 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), a silent film directed by Barry O'Neil
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''The Evangelist'' (1924 film), a German silent drama film
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"The Evangelist" (''Drop the Dead Donkey''), a television episode
* ''The Evangelist'', journal of
Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European literature, European and Scottish literature, notably the novels ''Ivanhoe'' (18 ...
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The Evangelists'', 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, at the west mouth of the Strait of Magellan
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Technology evangelist
A technology evangelist is someone who builds a critical mass of support for a specific 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 cont ...
, a person who attempts to build support for a given technology
See also
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Evangelical (disambiguation)
Evangelical means an adherent of Evangelicalism, the Protestant interdenominational religious movement with origins in First Great Awakening.
Evangelical or Evangelicals may also refer to:
*Lutheranism, one of the largest branches of Protestantism ...
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Evangelicalism
Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide, interdenominational movement within Protestantism, Protestant Christianity that emphasizes evangelism, or the preaching and spreading of th ...
, a Protestant Christian movement
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