PROTOLOGY: THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF REALITY

This paper offers a systematic academic engagement with Protology: The First Principle of Reality, a book that advances a jurisdiction-centred account of metaphysical ultimacy grounded in divine aseity and revelational authority. Rather than functioning as speculative metaphysics or confessional theology, Protology operates as a boundary-setting project that seeks to close illegitimate explanatory regress by identifying what must be first in order for existence, intelligibility, and normativity to obtain at all. This paper argues that Protology presents a coherent and rigorous model of ontological closure that resists both reductionist naturalism and epistemic autonomy. Through detailed analysis of its use of jurisdiction as a methodological principle, its doctrine of divine self-existence, its account of creation ex nihilo, its rejection of univocal God-language and metaphysical idealism, and its insistence that revelation is an ontological necessity rather than an epistemic supplement, the paper demonstrates that Protology constitutes a defensible first-principle metaphysics. The conclusion contends that the work forces a reconsideration of modern assumptions regarding neutrality, explanation, and philosophical authority, and that its primary significance lies not in offering another theory of origins, but in fixing the conditions under which any theory of origins can remain coherent.