evangelship

evangelship

English

Etymology

evangel +‎ -ship

Noun

evangelship (uncountable)

1. The condition of being an evangel (evangelist).
   • 1842, Thomas Bilson (successively Bishop of Worcester and of Winchester), The Perpetual Gouernement of Christes Church: a new edition, with a biographical notice, by Robert Eden, page 387:

     ... and not to Timothy and Titus in respect of their evangelship, as the presbyterists affirm; then can there be no question but this new discipline is a very dream, [...]

   • 1873, David Thomas, The genius of the gospel; a homiletical commentary on the Gospel of st. Matthew, ed. by W. Webster, page 148:

     We infer, therefore, that Christian discipleship is a necessary qualification for Christian evangelship. But what of Judas? Was he a true disciple? Yet was he not one of the apostles? His case was, confessedly, an exception to our principle ...