Separate fundamentalist and mainstream evangelical strands converged around patriarchal authority

Evidence

POSTWAR EVANGELICALISM CONSISTED OF A collection of diverse traditions and overlapping markets. Celebrities like Billy Graham, Marabel Morgan, and Anita Bryant represented the more outwardly focused, culturally engaged brand of modern evangelicalism, but within the larger movement there existed a more reclusive fundamentalist strand that remained largely invisible to the broader public. On questions of masculine authority, however, the two strands would find significant common ground. In the 1970s, this convergence was illustrated by two figures. One would become a widely recognized evangelical leader who would wield significant power at the national level for nearly half a century. The other would remain unknown outside of evangelicalism. Together, they would facilitate the alliance of separatist and “respectable” evangelicals around the assertion of patriarchal power, an alliance that would form the basis of a common cultural and political identity. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 173

Categorization

• XREF: Establishes the central thesis mechanism - convergence on patriarchy as identity basis - that later chapters document as culminating in Trump support.
• SEED: Potential angle on how movements with otherwise incompatible cultural postures (separatism vs. engagement) find common ground on a single load-bearing issue.