Dethroning God
The Collapse of Orthodox Christian Theology in a Postmodern and Postsecular World
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The utter differences of empirical pluralistic cultures serve as an implicit defense of the view that each culture has exactly the same value as any other culture as if there is nothing in any culture of transcendent moral significance above any other. If there is no objective truth that binds all cultures together and evaluates them then epistemologically there is only truth for the individual, or for the individual culture, or for the diverse interpreting communities found within each culture (postmodernism). To pick the texts of the Bible apart and extract from them what is most useful in one’s particular culture propounds a critique of everything else in the Bible (deconstruction). The more arrogant uninhibited method of contextualization is nothing more than another conduit of impending Scripture to further one’s own agenda. It perpetuates the worst poles of uncontrolled postmodernism.
Dethroning God is a non-fiction book that defines postmodernity in light of its predecessor, modernity. It discusses the moral consequences of John Locke and Friedrich Nietzsche, the influences on postmodernity of Jean-Francois Lyotard, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Pauline Rosenau, and Stanley Fish, how parallelism influences intertextuality in the Bible, the cultural manifestations of late capitalism, postmodernism and anthropology, how contextualization competes with globalization, and the postmodern and post-liberal challenges to modern liberal Christian theology. Finally, the sovereignty of God is defined, his sovereign will as Creator of all things is explored, how postmodernity denies the sovereign will of God, how his sovereign will infringes on liberty, and what attitudes we should have toward the Creator of the universe.
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Postmodernism has spawned a dichotomy of relativistic views on whether God is sovereign or not and whether if He even exists at all. If everything is relative, how can God be sovereign, and how can Jesus Christ be the only way to God? What is right for you may not be right for me!
Dethroning God is a book that defines postmodernity. It discusses the moral consequences of the ideas of philosophers from John Locke and Friedrich Nietzsche to Jacques Derrida and Stanley Fish; how parallelism influences intertextuality in the Bible; the cultural manifestations of late capitalism, postmodernism, and anthropology; how contextualization competes with globalization; and the postmodern and postliberal challenges to modern liberal Christian theology.
Finally, it defines and explores the sovereignty of God, his sovereign will as Creator of all things, how postmodernity denies the sovereign will of God, how his sovereign will infringes on liberty, and what attitudes we should have toward the Creator of the universe.
Doctor Vass rejected being a member of the Christian family for years. Being made “alive” has fostered a desire for Jesus Christ so fervently that Doctor Vass feels as though he has no option but to counter the culture that has for a hundred years tried to marginalize God and his redemptive work through his Son. There is a noticeable lack of theology today of proper doctrine and understanding of just who God is. Not only did He create all that there is, He owns and controls all that there is. Teaching and preaching abound on peripheral matters, but professing Christians are woefully deficient in understanding the nature and character of God and how secular beliefs impact what understanding Christians have. Doctor Vass earned his PhD in theology researching and writing on the reformed view of God in the postmodern world. The time has come to share this information with the world, especially the Christian world.
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Doctor Vass earned his BS degree from Virginia Tech, his DDS from the Medical College of Virginia, his MDiv and his PhD in theology from Trinity Theological Seminary. Doctor Vass served as pastor for four and a half years at Southwinds in Waldorf, Maryland and is currently an itinerant preacher, Sunday School teacher, and a full-time dentist. He and his wife, Charlotte, have three children and six grandchildren. They live in LaPlata, Maryland, a bedroom community of Washington, D.C.