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fundagelical en · ADJ

Etymology

Blend of fundamentalist + evangelical.

Meanings

  1. (derogatory, sometimes) Of, related to, or characteristic of both evangelical and fundamentalist Christianity.
    • Finally, we aimed to present our opinions without religious-like 'fundagelical' fervour. 2018, Gene Likens, David Lindenmayer, Effective Ecological Monitoring, unnumbered page:
    • Coming out as gay while also nestled in the bosom of fundagelical Christianity reveals more than sexual secrets. 2014, Jay Emerson Johnson, “Apocalypse Later”, in Cathleen Falsani, Jennifer Grant, editors, Disquiet Time: Rants and Reflections on the Good Book by the Skeptical, the Faithful, and a Few Scoundrels, unnumbered page:
    • Its attempts at explaining the “Scientific Creationists” fail, however, because they do not focus sufficiently on the importance of soteriology in fundagelical religion. 1993, Delos Banning McKown, The Mythmaker's Magic: Behind the Illusion of "Creation Science", page 166:

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fundagelical en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of fundamentalist + evangelical.

Meanings

  1. (derogatory, sometimes) A person with beliefs and values characteristic of both evangelical and fundamentalist Christianity.
    • What do fundagelicals instinctively oppose? Gay marriage, abortion, gun control, taxes, the UN (and the currently top-rated candidate for anti-Christ, Kofi Annan), withdrawal from Iraq, Michael Moore, Janet Jackson's left breast. 2004 May 3, John Sutherland, “God save America...”, in The Guardian:
    • In Alabama, Fundagelicals - our modern day moral majoritarians calling themselves Citizens for a Positive Education, banned the use of a social studies textbook on the grounds that it failed to extol the virtues of capitalism […] 1982, A View from the Loft, volumes 5-8, page 11:
    • Let us be radicals: not conservatives or liberals, fundagelicals or charismatics (or whatever other brand of something-less-than gospel entices), but radicals: radical preachers and practitioners of the gospel by justification by faith without the deeds of the law. 2012, Gerhard O. Forde, “Radical Lutheranism”, in Virgil Thompson, editor, Justification Is for Preaching: Essays by Oswald Bayer, Gerhard O. Forde, and Others, page 19:

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