gospeller

(redirected from Gospellers)
Also found in: Thesaurus, Wikipedia.

gos·pel·ler

also gos·pel·er  (gŏs′pə-lər)
n.
1. One who teaches or professes faith in a gospel.
2. One who reads or sings the Gospel as part of a church service.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

gospeller

(ˈɡɒspələ)
n
1. (Ecclesiastical Terms) a person who reads or chants the Gospel in a religious service
2. (Ecclesiastical Terms) a person who professes to preach a gospel held exclusively by him or her and others of a like mind
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.gospeller - a preacher of the Christian gospelgospeller - a preacher of the Christian gospel  
evangelist, gospeler, revivalist
preacher, preacher man, sermoniser, sermonizer - someone whose occupation is preaching the gospel
televangelist - an evangelist who conducts services on television
Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.
Mentioned in ?
References in classic literature ?
The man was a tall, lean, haggard personification of fanaticism, bearing on his breast this label,--A WANTON GOSPELLER,--which betokened that he had dared to give interpretations of Holy Writ unsanctioned by the infallible judgment of the civil and religious rulers.
It was the Wanton Gospeller. A sad and quiet smile flitted across the mild visage of Roger Williams.
View in context
Indeed, you could say the prosperity gospellers are the ones who mock the spiritual yearnings that were also part of the American dream with their materialistic reductionism and their sense that it is not enough to be working class, earning a living wage.
Spadaro and Figueroa rile the Christian right again in new essay
on his finger, something beloved of the hot gospellers waiting to ambush believers on TV's gospel channels.
Show-stealing turn at the Royal Wedding
The more he waved his hands about, the more I was distracted by the gold knuckleduster on his finger, something beloved of the hot gospellers waiting to ambush believers on TV's gospel channels.
Western Mail letters: Friday, May 25, 2018; Your letters to the national newspaper of Wales
Social gospellers formed the core of a liberalized Christianity which abandoned the 19th-century focus on individual salvation in favour of societal reform.
"Evangelization, Not Legislation": Christian Fundamentalism, the Briercrest Bible Institute, and the Politics of the Great Depression
For Woodsworth and other Social Gospellers, it increasingly appeared, however, that churches could not alone reform society in the aftermath of World War I.
From Strangers to "Humanity First": Canadian social democracy and immigration policy, 1932-1961
Reformers spoke of themselves as brethren, as gospellers or evangelicals, or simply as true Christians.
Selling Forbidden Books: Profit and Ideology in Thomas Godfray s Printing
Woodsworth (1972 [1909], 1972 [1911]) and Salem Bland (1973 [1920]), social gospellers argued that the churches should worry less about saving souls for the hereafter and worry more about creating the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth in the here and now.
"Building the New Jerusalem in Canada's Green and Pleasant Land": The Social Gospel and the Roots of English-Language Academic Sociology in Canada, 1889-1921
Religious idioms had nurtured the CCF's social gospellers but they rejected theological perplexities and Biblical literalism.
Ethnicity, religion, and socialism in Canada: the twenties through the war

Dictionary browser ?
Full browser ?