Evangelist

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Evangelist may refer to:

Religion

  • Four Evangelists, the authors of the canonical Christian Gospels
  • Evangelism, publicly preaching the Gospel with the intention of spreading the teachings of Jesus Christ
  • Evangelist (Anglican Church), a commissioned office in the ministry of many Anglican provinces
  • Evangelist, also known as an itinerant preacher in Methodism
  • Evangelist, another term for a Revivalist
  • 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
  • Presiding Patriarch, a church-wide leadership office within the priesthood of Latter Day Saints
  • Quorum of Seventy Evangelists, a leadership body in The Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite)

Music

  • 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
  • Der Evangelimann, an opera by Austrian composer Wilhelm Kienzl
  • The Evangelist (album), an album by Robert Forster

Other

  • The Evangelist (1916 film), a silent film directed by Barry O'Neil
  • The Evangelist (1924 film), a German silent drama film
  • "The Evangelist" (Drop the Dead Donkey), a television episode
  • The Evangelist, journal of Walter Scott
  • The Evangelists, a 1992 play by Romanian author Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
  • The Three Evangelists, a 1995 novel by French author Fred Vargas
  • Evangelistas Islets, at the west mouth of the Strait of Magellan
  • Technology evangelist, a person who attempts to build support for a given technology

See also

  • Evangelists (disambiguation)
  • Evangelical (disambiguation)
  • Evangelicalism, a Protestant Christian movement
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