The Center is Everywhere - Paperback

by Seung Chul Kim (Author)

The most crucial task facing Christian theology today is the furtherance of dialogue with the religious traditions of the world great and small and with the scientific worldview. The starting premise of this book is that the two dialogues need to be carried on simultaneously and equiprimordially, despite the risk of undermining the traditional foundations of the Christian faith. The author argues that such a crisis can be averted by breaking through its core and opening faith to an experience of nothingness. He draws on the Buddhist philosophy of the Kyoto School philosopher Nishitani Keiji to propose new paths toward a theology of religious pluralism grounded in a Huayan Buddhist vision of reality.

Author Biography

Seung Chul Kim received his Dr.Theol. from the University of Basel in 1989 and taught in Korea and Japan for twenty years before joining the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture in Nagoya, Japan, where he has been Director since 2016. In addition to over twenty volumes of translations on interreligious dialogue, literature, and the natural sciences, he has published numerous works in Japanese and Korean. A recent work, Endō Shūsaku and the Detective Novel (in Japanese), received the 2020 award of the Japan Society of Mystery Writers.