In the years after World War II, the theological differences between dispensationalists and other fundamentalists, including the emerging neo-evangelicals, were obscured by an overarching political conservatism rooted in Cold War anticommunism. No figure better reflected the overlap and tensions within fundamentalism than did the evangelist Billy Graham, at once an agent of fundamentalist and later neo-evangelical theology, and also an international celebrity and constant presence in the halls of American power. Though raised in North Carolina, away from the main currents of dispensationalism,
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