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Once parallel branches of the same head stream, fundamentalism and evangelicalism now represent distinct watersheds which have subdivided further into numerous sub-streams. Marsden supports this common ancestry, saying “some of the more moderate fundamentalists were using the word evangelical as a more respectable alternative, but that was by no means a rule, especially through the 1940s.” The continental divide clearly formed around attitudes regarding the inerrancy of Scripture, easily attested from hindsight though somewhat unclear during the 1950s. Continue reading →