Prof. Dr. Kim Seung Chul, graduated in physics from the Korea University, and who subsequently obtained his MA in Theology from the Methodist Theological University in Seoul (South Korea) and his PhD at the Faculty of Theology from the University of Basel (Switzerland), has recently joined to the International Center on Contemporary Nihilism (CeNic) in the role of researcher. Currently he is the director of the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture in Nagoya (Japan) and professor in the Faculty of Arts at the same university. His main academic interests revolve about bioethics, christian literature and the bond between science and religion. He has been professor for more than twenty years in Korea and Japan.