LINK: Jared Bridges on fundamentalism v. evangelicalism in the popular consciousness.
I always sort of straddle the border of these definitions, though I generally call myself a fundamentalist because I take a few propositions as critically important (justification through faith alone, sola scriptura, and the priesthood of all believers), and what follows from them logically as the next essential elements. Then again, these were formulated in various permutations by Luther, Calvin, Bucer, etc etc, which makes me your garden-variety Protestant. Then again (again), I also believe in interacting with the culture, rather than hiding from it, which makes me a evangelical on Mr. Bridges' definition. So what I presume this should tell me is that the label is sort of meaningless--it's the content of the belief that matters...
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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