上一個世紀20年代，葉靈鳳的小說〈拿撒勒人〉寫一個無力負擔學費的大學生蔚生，在母親過世、情人離去、經濟困窘的孤立狀況下，精神上轉而求助於耶穌基督宗教與尼采超人哲學，某個程度上相當可以代表五四時期現代文學的一個特殊現象，亦即某些作家不但接受基督宗教文化的影響，創作時挪用、改寫基督宗教文本、典故與神學，並且吸納尼采「超人」思想，形成一股內在衝突的創作活力。

In the year 1925, Ye Lingfeng's novel "Nazarene" writes an incapable university student named Waisheng, his mother passed away, his sweetheart leaved, and the economical condition embarrassed him very much. Waisheng sought help from Jesus Christ and the "overman" philosophy of Nietzsche, at some degree we may say that it represented a special phenomenon of modern literature in the period of May 4th, i.e. not only some writers accepted the influence of the Christian culture… the appropriation and rewriting of the Christian text, literary reference and theology… but also brought in Nietzsche's philosophy of "overman", and finally formed an creative power and vigor which contained intrinsic conflict.