protology

noun

1. The branch of theology pertaining to origins and first things.

   countable, uncountable

   And hence the progress of the history of salvation is the progress of protology in the progressive development of its starting-point.

2. A text or oral history giving the origins of a people.

   countable, uncountable

   Or, alternatively, perhaps they are the first human beings as described in tribal protologies.

Where it comes from

From Ancient Greek πρωτολογίᾱ (prōtologíā). By surface analysis, proto- + -logy.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry protology (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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