RE: Gaps in theistic arguments. Secular theism vs religious theism
February 25, 2015 at 11:59 am
The term ‘cause’ applies to any condition related to why something exists. Only one of Aristotle’s four causes, efficient, refers to the history of a sensible body’s being, i.e. its position in a physical chain of events. The First Cause, as traditionally understood, attempts to define the most fundamental matter and basic form common to all particular things. Neither concerns the temporal origin of particular sensible bodies since neither is subject to change.
