Finding God Again: Spirituality for Adults

by John J. Shea

Growing out of two decades of teaching and practice, Finding God Spirituality for Adults addresses, in an experiential and pastoral way, the need to re-envision God as we grow from an adolescent to adult spirituality. John Shea, a renowned pastoral counselor and teacher, shows how we can lose touch with religion, spirituality, and a belief in God because of times when our image of God is too narrow, unreal, or inadequate to make sense of our experience. Shea uses real life stories to illustrate and offer a life-changing challenge to leave behind the Superego God of childhood in favor of a Living God we can relate to as adults.

By showing the reader how to revisit God as an adult, Shea provides the motivation and method to embrace a Living God and claim the independence and responsibility that accompany genuine adulthood.

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[Cathy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting book. The premise is that we have one way of relating to God when we're a child (i.e. as a super-ego figure) and we must transform that into a more adult relationship as we get older. This had a lot of psychological terminology that bogged me down a bit, but I liked the overall idea of the book. I feel this is a good description of the transformation that I'm having as I go thru the Ignation Spiritual Exercises. I also liked the discussion of how the church as an institution is likely to go through this transformation. It gives me hope that we're not stuck with the current authoritarian Catholic church structure forever!