in response to David...that's way too recent. Anabaptists were certainly fundamentalists, Catholic missionaries were certainly evangelicals. I think the two forces are fundamentally different, one being conservative, the other expansive. In particular the strains of evengelicalism (I don't like that term but it's what the language has laid at our door) and fundamentalism today are more a rejection of societal change than any actual "new" thinking. The old strains of fundamentalism (anabaptists, orthodox, conservative anything) are still there and still fundamentalist (although they look more like the New testament to today's Old Testament fundamentalism).
When your prophet has JUST DIED, what he's said, the basis of your fundamentalism, is extremely progressive, even revolutionary. It's only millenia later that it's horribly antiquated and stuffy. Fundamentalism is fresh at some point.
