冰心1951年返回大陸後的文學創作中，對基督教的表現極其隱晦而複雜。看似尋常的文字，其中卻蘊藏著信仰的形變和重塑。她不僅化用聖經的話語資源來修飾政治現實，而且對教會和傳教士進行異於舊作的負面描寫；到了外在環境相對寬鬆的暮年，她又向著信仰作了謹慎而巧妙的回歸。十架在冰心後半生的作品中彎曲俯首，隨著歷史的慣性一路坎坷，為了命脈的存續代價沉重。當後人通過文本爬梳和實證分析來還原真相，冰心的創作心路就將得以更加明晰而系統的呈現，她在彼時彼地的艱難處境亦可獲得理解，基督信仰的堅韌生命更能被彰顯和驗證。

After Bing Xin came back to Mainland China in 1951, she adopted an obscure and complicated approach to Christianity in her literary writings, in which the distortion and reconstruction of the Christian faith lay beneath seemingly ordinary words. Not only did she utilize biblical linguistic resources from the Bible to portray the political reality; she also gave largely negative portrayals of church and missionaries. In her senior years when the political environment became relatively mild, Bing Xin sought to return to the Christian faith in cautious and creative ways. The cross in the second half of Bing Xin's life was bent as she paid the heavy price in order to survive the grim environment. Through careful analyses of her literary texts and the true evidence, we may gain a deeper understanding of the context Bing Xin was in and her spiritual journey behind the literary output, which manifested the resilience of the Christian faith.