2 Fundamentalists obviously fall into this category. But since the 1950s the term Evangelical has come to denote something even more specific. But words take on new meanings and different emotional colorings. That movement, and its influence, is the subject of this chapter. Before we discuss this movement, however, we should mention a point concerning the term New Evangelical.
Fundamentalists are virtually the only group that uses the term today.
Fundamentalists, however, are loath to surrender the term Evangelical completely, and they want to note the disagreement over separation marked by the terms Fundamentalist and New Evangelical. David Beale has suggested the aptly descriptive term Broad Evangelicalism , as distinguished from Fundamentalist Evangelicalism, but the term has not yet caught on. Bowing to common usage, we will use the terms Evangelical and New Evangelical for the most part interchangeably in this chapter. By Mark Sidwell.