 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'.The term "ontotheology" was coined by Immanuel Kant in direct conjunction with the term cosmotheology, "in order to distinguish between two competing types of 'transcendental theology'.