Chen Yingzhen is often viewed as a dissenter in Taiwan's history because of his left wing political orientation and Chinese nationalist identity; however, despite his leftist views, he remained a devoted Christian throughout his life. Nonetheless, the seemingly different ideologies of Christianity, which emphasizes the importance the Final Judgement over the concerns of everyday life; Marxism, which emphasizes atheism; and Chinese nationalism, which emphasizes supremacy of the Chinese national interest, achieved a state of logical self-consistency in Chen's literary works and personal life. Employing an intellectual history perspective, the present study is a close reading of Chen's literary works from across different writing periods in his life. Based on the concepts of a "Messiah" in theology and in philosophy of history, this study analyzes how the different elements of the three ideologies that were contradicting in nature were blended and sublated into a political-religious viewpoint that combined ideas regarding the ultimate forms of society and eschatological religious goals with a constantly backtracking and circulating personal temporality. Through examining the work of Chen, this study brings further understanding of an aspect of the historical experiences and ideological transitions of Taiwanese intellectuals