Protology
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Protology is a noun meaning (theology) The branch of theology pertaining to origins and first things.
Meaning
(theology) The branch of theology pertaining to origins and first things.
More Meanings
- A text or oral history giving the origins of a people.
- Misconstruction of proctology.
Example Sentences
Or, alternatively, perhaps they are the first human beings as described in tribal protologies.
And hence the progress of the history of salvation is the progress of protology in the progressive development of its starting-point.
Their fear, it is claimed, is that analysis of remains will "disprove" traditional tribal protologies, which often state that the tribe in question has been on its ancestral lands since creation.
The Chalcedonian defender of thoroughgoing aphtharsia, driven into a corner, now seeks refuge in protology, that is, in referring to the original condition of Adam in Paradise, with whom he compares Christ.
Word Forms
- protologies
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include protistology, patriology, protophysics, stoichiology, protozoology, metatheology.
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