Evangelicalism

[useful idiot]

This has been a topic before, but the answer is no if you want to use terms correctly. Christian Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism are two distinct historical movements. One is a reform movement born out of the First Great Awakening that emphasizes cultural engagement and adaptation within the bounds of traditional Protestant orthodoxy, with its goals being evangelism and church renewal. The other is a movement that arose in the late 1800s and early 1900s in response to "higher criticism" and the attacks of modernity, attempting to fight secularism by defending Christianity in modernist terms and advocating schism and withdrawal.

Two 20th century events fractured evangelicalism, one being the 50s/60s exodus of fundamentalists to evangelicalism in order to re-create it as a middle ground between fundamentalism and liberalism. This resulted in new denominations and institutions apart from traditional denominations, and a large influx of young people in the late 60s/early 70s added an even more anti-institutional flavor. The other was the decision by many within fundamentalism to abandon their emphasis on separation in order to get involved in politics in the 1970s, at which time many of them started calling themselves "evangelicals."

Thus evangelicalism is a far broader tent than either fundamentalism or liberal Christianity, and to lump even a majority of them into one or another category would be over-generalizing. Fundamentalists call evangelicals liberal, and liberals call them fundamentalist, and to be honest as an evangelical, I'm ok with that.