Indent said
A lot of evangelical Christians seem to denounce social justice, so I’m curious what your take is on the NT gospels and social issues. Are the authors concerned about social issues of the time?  

Traditionally Judaism with its Law had prescripts for upholding and promoting social justice. The basic principle was that overall justice would come about when individuals and rulers kept the Law. An individual violating the Law would bring about illnesses and misfortunes affecting himself and his closest family. The sins of a ruler would hit the entire society. The Law was fixed and they did not have our modern ideas of engineering justice by modifying the laws and the system itself. They had only one instrument: keeping the Law.

The early Christians became detached from the Law, but still thought the only way of promoting justice was through individual acts of following ethical commands, like forgiveness and caring for the needy. A thorough social justice could however not be created by individuals alone, in a sum, they were expecting the intervention of God, since the world basically was in the grip of satanic powers.