on, it seems to have become habitual for American Evangelicals to refer to these articles as ‘the fundamentals’ simply. The General Assembly’s list was adopted, with minor variations and additions, as the doctrinal platform of later ‘fundamentalist’ organizations, of which the first was the still surviving World Christian Fundamentals Association, formed in 1919. In 1920, a group of evangelical delegates to the Northern Baptist Convention held a preliminary meeting among themselves ‘to re-state,