Foundations of Swedish democracy. In Sweden, parliamentary democracy evolved during the earliest decades of the 20th century. Voting rights reforms in 1909 created universal male suffrage and introduced proportional elections. In 1921, universal suffrage was extended to women.
Full Definition of EVANGELICAL. 1. : of, relating to, or being in agreement with the Christian gospel especially as it is presented in the four Gospels. 2. : protestant. evangelical. adjective evanÂ·gelÂ·iÂ·cal \ËÄ-Ëvan-Ëje-li-kÉl, Ëe-vÉn-\. Tweet. : of or relating to a Christian sect or group that stresses the authority of the Bible, the importance of believing that Jesus Christ saved you personally from sin or hell, and the preaching of these beliefs to other people.
For the purposes of our study here of evangelicalism and the evangelical movement, we will define evangelicalism as the movement of the past 270 years blending pietist revivalism with Protestant orthodoxy as manifest in the âGreat Awakeningsâ and in modern post-fundamentalist evangelicalism.