Evangelicalism. A movement in North American Christianity that emphasizes the classical Protestant doctrines of salvation, the church and the authority of the Scriptures, but in the American context it is characterized by stress on a personal experience of the grace of God, usually termed the new birth or conversion. Estimates of evangelical strength in the U.S. and Canada run as high as fifty million, making it one of the major expressions of Christianity in North America. Evangelicalism has been