First Cause

American  

noun

Theology.

1. God.

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first cause British  

noun

1. a source or cause of something

2. (often capitals) (esp in philosophy) God considered as the uncaused creator of all beings apart from himself

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Etymology

Origin of First Cause

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

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

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

Here the First Cause of street cars, steamboats, telephones could be seen.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From his misuse of these terms Mr. Spencer is led to speak in an irrelevant manner upon the question, "Is the First Cause finite or infinite?"

From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jones, Jesse H.