Hi Wikepedia clarifies this issue quite well............. The German term evangelisch more accurately corresponds to the broad English term _Protestant_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant) rather than to the narrower _Evangelical_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelicalism) (in German called evangelikal), although the _Evangelical Lutheran Church in America_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelical_Lutheran_Church_in_America) uses the term in the same way as the German church. Literally, evangelisch means "of the Gospel", denoting a Reformation emphasis on _sola scriptura_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sola_scriptura) , "scripture alone". The church described in this article is a federation of different, mostly mainstream Protestant churches, rather than one evangelical church. It can thus be considered a _united church_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_and_uniting_churches) _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelical_Church_in_Germany_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelical_Church_in_Germany) Brigitte