Trading Futures

“In this conspiracy of a captivatingly clear theopoiesis with a future held captive by neoliberal capitalism, something unprecedented takes place: the wedging open of the edgy chance of an escape. Filipe Maia’s ‘fugitive futures’ break out through the brilliant space of a hope too honest to consume, to mock, or to silence.” - Catherine Keller, George T. Cobb Professor of Constructive Theology, Drew University Theological School

“Here is a liberation theology for the present—or, better, for the future, the not yet. Filipe Maia brings a longstanding and indispensable tradition of liberationist critique to bear on the contemporary realities of finance capitalism, opening crucial spaces of alterative hope against foreclosed horizons.” - Devin Singh, author of Divine Currency: The Theological Power of Money in the West

"In short scope and lucid prose, Felipe Maia’s Trading Futures makes a provocative argument about such fundamental topics as justice, capitalism, theology, and time. . . . Trading Futures effectively shows that agents of financial capitalism and theologians of liberation can differ profoundly in their orientations toward the future." - Matthew Scherer, Perspectives On Politics

"This is a masterful book by a younger scholar that addresses matters at the very heart of contemporary theology." - Joerg Rieger, Journal of Economics, Theology and Religion