John Shea is a professor of pastoral care and counseling at the Institute of Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry at Boston College. In introducing this book we will be discussing, I want to begin with some questions: How deep of a yes have we said to the God Jesus describes as the Living God of Unconditional Love? How many of us have grown up with, been taught and actually do believe in a God of very conditioned love -- a God arbitrary in his judgments and tyrannical in his punishments -- a God to be feared? This is what Shea asks us to examine: our own lived images and experiences of God. He helps us to understand the "Superego God" learned in adolescence and how we can move toward the "Living God" as we grow into spiritual adulthood.