Though black evangelicals could lapse into vague platitudes as easily as white evangelicals, there was a nuance to their views often lacking among their white counterparts. Brown portrayed black evangelicals as a people caught between the liberal civil rights movement, which had positive social concern but lacked proper doctrine, and white evangelicalism, which had correct doctrine but was disastrously deficient in social concern. While black evangelicals often advocated unity in Christ as the foundation of social equality, white evangelicals often described unity in Christ as a substitute for
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