Fundamentalist?

In modern vernacular, the term "fundamentalist" generally carries one of two connotations:
1) an angry religious moralist who opposes any enjoyment of life for fear of consequent sin;
2) a rabid religious zealot whose adherence to a particular dogma leads to acts of violence.
I am using the term in neither of these ways.
I suppose the term "evangelical" could substitute, though it no longer means what it once did. For many, what once referred to a life oriented around the gospel, both in its belief and practice, now carries the connotation of a light-hearted and light-weighted Christianity, often focused upon catchy music and traditional values politics.
In 1923, J. Gresham Machen published a book entitled Christianity & Liberalism, which title exemplifies his conclusions concerning a debate that had been raging for more than a decade at Princeton Seminary. Machen, among others, insisted that modernist views rejecting essential doctrines--ranging from the reliability of Scripture to the resurrection of Christ--were antithetical to true Christianity. Thus, the options were Christianity or Liberalism, but the two are by definition mutually exclusive. Of course, a faith based upon certain fundamental doctrines will, of necessity, exclude from its recognition of "genuine" Christianity other alternatives, such as Roman Catholicism (the system, not necessarily individuals), Mormonism, the Watchtower Society, and other lesser known deviations. This is the sense in which I am using the term
Many will accuse such a perspective of intolerance, and make assumptions about its motives and personalities. Let me try to dispel some of these notions. First, I have many friends who do not share my doctrinal convictions. I love these friends. I and my family are socially engaged with them. We rejoice at their successes and sorrow over their failures. Yet, we are not by this compelled to abandon our beliefs. Tolerance does not demand agreement, but civility. I also consider my motives to be sincere. I pray for these friends to come to a knowledge of the truth--a knowledge that will not only improve their present but secure their eternity. Short of such knowledge, I believe their only joys to be temporal and their eternity to be tragic. So I attempt to convince them of my beliefs. A genuine friend could do no other. They need not accept my views to be my friends, but I sure love them and hope they will. In personality, I do not think you would find me to be combative or quarrelsome. I am passionate; I am driven; but, I am happy.
In contrast to the nomenclature "evangelical," my theology is rich, and deep, and meaningful. It shares the great heritage of the reformers and Puritans, rejects the folly of the revivalists of the 19th and early 20th centuries, and distinguishes easily between those doctrines which are essential for true Christian faith, and those which are helpful for Christian maturity and Christian living.
I am a happy fundamentalist.