figurism

thumb|According to the Figurists, Noah's son [[Shem (here with Ham and Japheth) went to the Far East and brought with him the knowledge of Adam.]]

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Contents

Background
Figurist tenets
The Issue of Chronology
The Theory of Common Origin with [[Noah]]
The Revelation of Messiah
Opposition to the Figurists
Influence and failure of the Figurists
Representatives
References
Citations
Bibliography

thumb|According to the Figurists, Noah's son [[Shem (here with Ham and Japheth) went to the Far East and brought with him the knowledge of Adam.]]

Figurism was an intellectual movement of Jesuit missionaries at the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century, whose participants viewed the I Ching as a prophetic book containing the mysteries of Christianity, and prioritized working with the Qing Emperor (rather than with the Chinese literati) as a way of promoting Christianity in China.

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