First Cause
noun
God.
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first causenouna source or cause of something
First Cause
Americannoun
Theology.
first cause
British
noun
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a source or cause of something
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(often capitals) (esp in philosophy) God considered as the uncaused creator of all beings apart from himself
Etymology
Origin of First Cause
First recorded in 1895–1900
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This reverts to the problem of the First Cause, which is the uncaused cause that gave rise to all other causes.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 4, 2018
But to him, ethical piety cannot depend upon the impersonal First Cause manifested in nature but upon the First Cause manifested in the "will-to-love."
From Time Magazine Archive
Aquinas reasoned that each effect must have a cause and that an endless chain must proceed back to a primordial First Cause or Prime Mover.
From Time Magazine Archive
Barth insists that natural theology can only understand God as a First Cause or a Great Designer or some similar abstract idea that in reality is a product of man's own thinking processes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead of beginning with ideas of God, to find man I ought to have gone first to man, to see how arise the ideas of the First Cause.
From The Hearts of Men by H. (Harold) Fielding
The differences in density first cause stars to collide and merge.
From Science Daily ● May 30, 2024
For Aristotle, there can be no immaterial forms—everything that exists has some material basis, though he allows an exception for his first cause, the unmoved mover.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
West Antarctica “is what will first cause big problems for everyone with sea level rise,” he said.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 26, 2022
Kerry’s first cause after returning from fighting in the Vietnam War was activism for the first Earth Day, in 1970, he says.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 7, 2021
But there had always been the lake, which was the town’s first cause of existence, a place for immigrant settlers to put down their loads.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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