ontologism

on·tol·o·gism

[on-tol-uh-jiz-uhm]
noun Theology.
the doctrine that the human intellect has an immediate cognition of God as its proper object and the principle of all its cognitions.

Origin:
1860–65; ontolog(y) + -ism

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