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When thinking or the Christian spirit of Martin Luther's practice of love for one's neighbor as we face the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's Reformation, the author sought to reveal the theological ideas of Luther in Chinese literature. We demonstrated that the film and novel Jin Ling Shi San Chai written by the Chinese writer Yan Geling, effectively reflected the concept of sacrifice and love emphasized by Luther. "Jinling" is an old name for the city of Nanjing,ravaged by the Nanjing Massacre in 1937 during the Sino-Japanese war. The film The Flowers of War takes place in this very city and at that time, telling the tragic story of the school girls of Winchester Cathedral. Japanese soldiers demand that he turn the girls over to them. The story ends with the prostitutes sacrificing themselves for the girls, disguised as them. The novel has a similar plot, with the difference being the absence of the mortician. Luther's ethic, that a Christian must be a Christ to his neighbor, is reflected in the sacrifice of the prostitutes. Depicted as disguised schoolgirls with gilt-edged bibles in their hands, the actions of the prostitutes can be interpreted as the practice of the Christian ideology of salvation. Their actions depict the image of the scapegoat, symbolizing the sacrifice of the Christ for our sins. Based on documents of a real event, Yan Geling intentionally changed the background from a college to a cathedral to add a religious scheme. "The Heroes of Nanking" effectively portrays the theology of Luther, revolving around the idea of salvation. This paper aims to prove that the writer of the novel Yan Geling, successfully illustrates the idea of Christianity, and furthermore that the director, Zhang Yimou ' intentionally diminished religious schemes to appeal to the Chinese majority, most of whom arc non-Christians.

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