No.  We certainly need a Biblical theology of social justice in the Church, but our hope is not in our theology, or our action.  Our hope is not in us at all.

Our hope is in a story.  A story, and where we are in that story.

God's answer to the problem of evil and suffering and injustice is profoundly clear in the Bible.  He made two promises - first, He would provide a man who would be born who would decisively defeat evil, reverse the curse on the created order, and bring justice to all nations.  Second, He would provide for Himself a dwelling place on the earth, so that He could again live with His creation in the communion and joy of the garden of Eden.  The entire Hebrew scriptures are essentially the telling and retelling and elaboration and false starts and restored hopes of those two promises.

And then, in a gloriously dramatic and un-looked for way on the first Christmas night, God set His plan into motion.  He personally invaded His creation and became the Man who would fulfill the promises in Person.  The first beachhead of the Kingdom of Heaven on the earth was a cattle trough in a cave in a peasant village just outside Jerusalem.

In the next 33 years, God-in-the-flesh waged war against sin and death and sickness and evil and injustice.  But the war was very different from what anyone expected.  Instead of crushing sinners, He saved them.  Instead of casting down evil, He confronted it with a love that would not back down - even in the face of threats and insults.  Instead of leading a revolution to end injustice, He thundered against the wickedness in individual hearts and called for everyone who heard Him to repent and put their faith in Him, personally.  And instead of ending the curse of death, He took it upon Himself and died.

And in death, He triumphed once and for all.  That was why, as His first followers said, "It was impossible for death to keep its hold on Him" (Acts 2:24).  He rose from the dead, and in that moment, the battle was won.  The beachhead of heaven had turned into the unstoppable advance of a total victory, already accomplished in everything but detail.  To use an analogy from World War II, D-Day had happened, and the war in Europe was effectively won.

But between D-Day and V-E Day (when Germany surrendered), there were many harsh days of slogging through battlefields and many lives lost to accomplish in fact what was already achieved in effect.  And so it is with us.  We live between the first invasion of God, when He won the victory, and the second, when He will come and take ownership.  In that Day, every promise He made will be fulfilled, every wrong will be redressed, and injustice and death and war will end once and for all. 

In the meantime, we've got a job to do, of declaring the good news of this Kingdom that is coming - the Second Invasion of God to planet Earth - both in bringing every rebel heart back to allegiance to the True King, and in bringing a downpayment - a foretaste - of that King's kingdom into every area of life: healing bodies, restoring relationships, ending injustice, and creating beauty.  The goal of all of it is to create in every human heart who will listen a longing for the King to come again and for the Kingdom to be established once and for all.

God has already done something about evil.  God is doing something about evil right now, through His people.  And God will - soon - do something about evil once and for all.

When you know what story you live in and where you find yourself in the story, you can join the angels in exuberant praise, and actually mean it:

"Glory to God in the highest,
      And on earth peace, goodwill toward men!" (Luke 2:14)

A blessed Christmas to all, and keeping looking and hoping for the true and final peace on earth!