James Houston (I Believe in the Creator) describes the exaggeration of creation at the expense of sovereignty of God as "Apollonian man": Man the maker, Homo faber, the molder and manipulator of his environment. Will and intellect dominate. Values are translated as action; authenticity is aggressiveness and masculinity. God is encountered in deism, in order, deed and action. Life is lived consciously. (Compare this with the description of Dionysian Man, an exaggeration of Providence.)
This description fits the modern secular scientist or technician. Deism refers to the doctrine, popularized at the beginning of modern science by Newton, that the universe is like a vast and intricate clockwork. God acts as the clock designer and maker, who occasionally intervenes but generally allows the clock to run by itself, autonomously. Gradually, the need for God to intervene became less and less. Today there are many who subscribe to "scientism", which assumes that "the cosmos is all there is, or was, or will be" (Carl Sagan, Cosmos).
This view threatens human nature because science can find no way to distinguish persons from the rest of nature, and nature itself is this vast clockwork universe, running but going nowhere.
The dialogical pattern shows that this threat occurs because of the exaggeration of the Christian doctrine of Sovereignty, by replacing the sovereign God by sovereign Man. In doing this, the exaggeration rejects the doctrine of Creation, that Man is a creature, part of the created order and not autonomous. "Unlike Greek man, who is above all a rational being, biblical man is a being of whom demands are made. His central problem is not, 'What is being?', but rather: 'What is required of me?' "
Houston, I Believe in the Creator, p. 79.