Sobornost, thanks for your reply. I’m still looking into it. I have found evidence that evangelicals have common roots with fundamentalists, and some even seem to use the terms interchangeably. So I guess I’m not surprised that you decided to contrast the two in order to try to describe evangelicalism by contrast.
One thing that I left out of my O.P. was that I have found that evangelicals supposedly split off from Fundamentalists when Fundamentalists began withdrawing, separating themselves from secular society. This certainly makes sense of the name, if evangelicals are attempting to reach out to and interact with the world around them.
Two things surprise me about your answer. First, you identity E’s without using either of the terms inerrancy or infallibility. But if E’s at least agree to a “Strong Emphasis on authority and inspiration of the Bible” that would include anyone who affirms either of those things.
Second, you identify F’s as “Insists on dramatic conversion experience” but not E’s, but this is one of the specific things mentioned as a core common belief of evangelicals by historian David Bebbington, who I have seen cited on several pages about evangelicalism.
Bebbington identifies the following four traits of evangelicalism:
-Conversionism: the belief that lives need to be transformed through a “born-again” experience and a life long process of following Jesus.
-Activism: the expression and demonstration of the gospel in missionary and social reform efforts
-Biblicism: a high regard for and obedience to the Bible as the ultimate authority
-Crucicentrism: a stress on the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross as making possible the redemption of humanity
One more thing I have noticed is that in discussions of Evangelicalism, one name that invariably seems to come up is Billy Graham, Southern Baptist Evangelist well-known for leading revivals. (It is worth mentioning that Graham has suggested that people who don’t know the name of Christ may still end up saved.)