Ontotheology means the
ontology of God and/or the theology of
being. While the term was first used by
Immanuel Kant, it has only come into broader philosophical parlance with the significance it took for
Martin Heidegger's later thought. While, for Heidegger, the term is used to critique the whole tradition of 'Western metaphysics', much recent scholarship has sought to question whether 'ontotheology' developed at a certain point in the metaphysical tradition, with many seeking to equate the development of 'ontotheological' thinking with the development of modernity, and
Duns Scotus often being cited as the first 'ontotheologian'.