allegorism

noun2

1. •
   The use of allegory.

   • These two tendencies correspond, mutatis mutandis, with the development of symbolism and allegorism in twentieth-century literature. — 1999
2. •
   The belief that the primary value and significance of what is earthly and tangible is the way it points to the divine.

   • The issue of the merits or demerits of allegorism became pronounced at the close of the 13th century and was keenly contested in the polemical literature of the second Maimonidean controversy. — 2007