figurism (English, noun)
expansion: figurism (uncountable)
Senses:
topics: Christianity
glosses: 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.
tags: historical
uncountable
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