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The Figurists viewed Fu Xi as Enoch, the biblical patriarch.
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Figurists and Fu
According to the Figurists ( a group of Jesuit missionaries mainly led by Joachim Bouvet into China at the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century and based on ideas of Matteo Ricci 1552 to 1610 ), Fu Xi in China's ancient history is actually Enoch.
Figurists and .
According to the Figurists, Noah's son Shem ( here with Ham ( son of Noah ) | Ham and Japheth ) would have been to the Far East and would have brought with him the knowledge of Adam.
The Figurists maintained the belief of the early Jesuit missionaries in China that China's ancient religion, now almost lost, was connected to the Judeo-Christian tradition.
The first aspect that all Figurists agreed upon was the belief that a certain period in the Chinese history does not belong to the Chinese only but to all of mankind.
This made the Figurists believe that the two histories were equal in religious importance.
Thus the Figurists believed that you could find many hidden allusions to pre-Christian revelation in the Chinese classics.
The Figurists determined that the shengren ( 聖人 ), or sage, was in fact the Messiah.
This proved in the minds of the Figurists that for example the birth of Jesus was foreshadowed in the Chinese classics as well.
There was opposition to the Figurists both in China and in Europe.
Because of the overwhelming opposition to the Figurists, they were unable to publish any of their works during their lifetimes, except for Foucquet who got his major work published in 1729.
However other aspects hampered the Figurists.
Most importantly, the Figurists did not agree among themselves.
viewed and Fu
She was viewed largely positively for her heroism and ( presumed ) humility, and viewed sympathetically for her death at the hand of her romantic rival Consort Fu.
viewed and biblical
Divine revelation for the direction of the entire church comes from God to the President of the Church, who is viewed by Latter-day Saints as a prophet in the same sense as Noah, Abraham, Moses, Peter, and other biblical leaders.
They sought to modernize education in light of contemporary scholarship, they rejected claims of absolute divine authorship of the Torah, declaring only those biblical laws concerning ' ethics ' to be binding, and stated that the rest of halakha ( Jewish religious law ) need not be viewed as normative for Jews in wider society.
These and other gender inequalities found in the Torah suggest that women were subordinate to men during biblical times, however, they also suggest that biblical society viewed continuity, property, and family unity as paramount.
However, at this time in Spain, translation of biblical texts into Spanish was not viewed favorably, and the translation of the Song of Songs was one of the main charges of supposed heresy brought against him when in 1572 he was imprisoned in Valladolid-though released after four years with an admonition.
While some authorities were concerned about the possible infringement of biblical law were men to don women's apparel, the accepted consensus was to permit all masquerade, as it was viewed as a form of merry-making.
Rather, Covenant is viewed as the structure by which the biblical text organizes itself.
At this time in Spain, translation of biblical texts into Spanish was not viewed favorably, so Fray Luis faced a certain amount of risk in the undertaking of this task.
The site was selected and named Mount Pisgah by LDS apostle Parley P. Pratt, who, when he first saw the modest hill, was reminded of the biblical Pisgah ( Deuteronomy 3: 27 ) where Moses viewed the Promised Land.
The text is thought to be from the Sethian sect of Gnostics ( the sect that viewed the biblical Seth as their hero, who was reincarnated as Jesus ).
Others like Rabbi Zvi Kalischer viewed a return to the Jewish homeland as the fulfillment of biblical prophecy through natural means.
The curriculum is viewed through a biblical Christian perspective, though the staff and faculty are not associated with any one denomination.
In conservative Protestantism Romans 12: 6 is viewed as the biblical reference for the term " analogy of the faith " ( i. e., αναλογἰα τῆς πἰστεως ).
Macduff's son is viewed as a symbol of the youthful innocence Macbeth hates and fears, and the scene has been compared by one critic to the biblical Slaughter of the Innocents.
viewed and patriarch
He viewed it as " motherless paternity in the place of fatherless maternity " where once altered, Athena's character was to be crystallized as that of a patriarch.
While the bishop of Rome had always been viewed as the chief patriarch in the Western church, much of the pope's authority was delegated to local diocesan bishops.
viewed and .
Most of them are Democrats and nearly all consider themselves, and are viewed as, liberals.
Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.
The distances of these points of light is a problem he cannot master, beyond crude conjectures as to the orderings of the planetary orbits viewed outward from earth.
It spread to most of the audience and was often viewed by visiting whites who snickered behind handkerchief and afterward discussed Negro religion.
Often, in working out-of-doors under all conditions of light and atmosphere, a particular passage that looked favorable in relation to the subject will be too bright, too dull, or too light, or too dark when viewed indoors in a mat.
When this experiment is viewed as composed of five binomial trials, one for each member of the family, the outcomes of the trials are obviously not independent.
Indeed, the experiment is better viewed as consisting of one binomial trial for the entire family.
Where boundary maintenance describes the boundaries or limits of the group, systemic linkage is defined `` as the process whereby one or more of the elements of at least two social systems is articulated in such a manner that the two systems in some ways and on some occasions may be viewed as a single unit.
The naive state, Condition 1,, could therefore be viewed as an inhibiting one for 24% of the subjects in this study.
It is not surprising that the international obligations of states were also viewed in terms of contract.
With respect to items such as these the provisions of section 381(c), viewed in historical perspective, suggest a rule requiring survival, whether the items are beneficial or detrimental to the surviving corporation.
He was oblivious of the form of the object actually being viewed, precisely because he could not assign it to a visual shape, already learned and held in visual memory, as persons of normal vision do.
On Wednesday evening, November 23, 1859, in Warren, Rev. Mark Trafton of New Bedford, gave a `` Mission of Sympathy '' lecture in which he favorably viewed the Harper's Ferry insurrection.
A `` mental image '' subconsciously impressing us from beneath its language symbols in wakeful thought, or consciously in light sleep, is actually not an image at all but is comprised of realities, viewed not in the concurrent sensory stream, but within the depths of the fourth dimension.
Hereby, the external object viewed by the eyes remains the thing that is seen, not the retinal image, the purpose of which would be to achieve perceptive cooperation by stirring sympathetic impulses in the other sensory centers, motor tensions, associated word symbols, and consciousness.
In June 1845, the Governor and Council of Assiniboia imposed a 20 per cent duty on imports via Hudson's Bay which were viewed as aimed at the `` very vitals of the Company's trade and power ''.
the schism between central city and suburb, Negro and White, blue collar and white collar can be viewed as symptomatic of this deeper polarization of trends in the metropolis.
`` A gift horse to be viewed with suspicion ''.
The disclosure by Charles Bellows, chief defense counsel, startled observers and was viewed as the prelude to a quarrel between the six attorneys representing the eight former policemen now on trial.
Some viewed this attempt as evidence that Mr. Wagner regarded himself as bigger than the party.
Rather than viewing the abortive recovery in 1959-60 as a reason for believing we have lost prospects for growth '', he said `` it should be viewed as a lesson well learned which will increase the probability of substantial improvement in this recovery ''.
`` My approval of this bill should not be viewed as establishing a precedent for the enactment of similar legislation for other mineral industries '', the President said.
Realtors, both generally and in this group, have invariably equated residential integration with a decline in property values, a circumstance viewed with considerable apprehension.
Theresa Stubblefield, still holding the family letters in one hand, realized that her whole trip to Europe was viewed in family circles as an interlude between Cousin Elec's death and `` doing something '' about Cousin Emma.
Aristotle's conception of the deepest human relationship viewed in the light of the history of philosophic thought on friendship.
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