"Is it possible to rediscover the language of conjugal love when marriage has been deconstructed and any reference to nature is viewed with suspicion? In order to regain the poetry of love as a hymn of praise to God, C. Sweeney and B. T. Trainor trace in this evocative book the personalistic, Christocentric, and Trinitarian dimensions of love through the sacramental language of baptism." 

- Livio Melina, Professor of Moral Theology at the Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute, Rome. 

"I applaud Conor Sweeney's venture into a modern minefield - the enigmas of submission and rank as they apply to the teaching on marriage in Ephesians 5. It begs us all to question our hearts deeply in the light of Christ's own headhsip and kenosis." 

- Anna M. Silvas, Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and Senior Research Fellow of the University of New England, Australia. 

Conor Sweeney is author of Sacramental Presence after Heidegger: Onto-theology, Sacraments, and the Mother's Smile (2015) and Abiding the Long Defeat: How to Evangelise Like a Hobbit in a Disenchanted Age (2018). 

For most of his academic career, the late Brian T. Trainor worked as Senior Lecturer in Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of South Australia. He later served as Senior Lecturer and Head of Postgraduate Studies in Humanities at Tabor Adelaide. Dr. Trainor published several books and international journal articles sharing his intellectual insights in the areas of philosophy, theology, and political theory - often nuanced by his compelling advocacy for traditional Christian marriage and family.