Humanity has repeatedly shown its falleness and its need for redemption in Christ. Cultural barbarism and the Newtown shootings are symptoms that reveal this condition. Christmas points toward the cure.
The issue of economic justice is hotly debated in the church.
While Scripture does not provide us with an economic system that all cultures of all times are required to implement, it does reveal many principles that will help us identify a just economic system, as well as just economic behavior by individuals.