"Evangelical zeal" refers to a strong passion, enthusiasm, or fervor towards promoting or spreading a particular belief, ideology, or cause, typically associated with evangelism or religious advocacy. Full definition
We await the publication of his novels with almost evangelical zeal, eager to be entertained and edified by him as by no other contemporary American writer. (religion-online.org)
Wesley's evangelical zeal stemmed from his conviction that God is a reality for all people, that grace works in all, and that all are called to love God and neighbor and can be empowered to do so by grace. (religion-online.org)
The suspicion grows that the clergy's ambivalence, if not indifference, to what we do for a living stems less from evangelical zeal than from the unacknowledged sway of aristocratic values, canonized by the classical philosophers. (religion-online.org)