Chinese Jews were cast as models for a syncretic Sino-Catholic Christianity

Evidence

For the Jesuits, the need to locate a Chinese Jewish Bible became more compelling than ever; it could help to solve liturgical and scriptural disputes once and for all. In addition, the Chinese Jews, who were believed to have embraced aspects of Confucian culture, Buddhism, and Taoism, while still remaining Jewish, could serve as a model for their vision of the Chinese Catholics, and the Chinese Jewish community within the framework of a Sino-Catholic Church. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 347

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the rubric article on grafting — religious institutions grafting native practices onto imported faith, treating the Chinese Jews as a precedent for permissible syncretism.