Figurism

According to the Figurists, Noah's son Shem (here with Ham and Japheth) would have been to the Far East and would have 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,[1] and prioritized working with the Qing Emperor (rather than with the Chinese literati) as a way of promoting Christianity in China.[2]

  1. ^ Mungello (1989), p. 309.
  2. ^ Mungello (1989), 300–305.