figurism

== English == === Etymology === From figure +‎ -ism. === Noun === figurism (uncountable) (Christianity, historical) 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. ==== Related terms ==== figurist ==== Translations ====