Sentence:  Our task, in what must necessarily be a longer section than those previous, will be first to explore the eschatological dimension of the protological image, then to show how these dual dimensions of <WSD>protology</WSD> and eschatology ground Irenaeus' focus on history and salvation as 'recapitulation'. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (theology) The branch of theology pertaining to origins and first things.