The phrase "and efficient cause of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in philosophical or scientific discussions to refer to a factor that brings about an effect or result.
Example: "The researcher identified the environmental changes as the efficient cause of the species decline."
Alternatives: "and driving force behind" or "and primary factor in".
God is viewed as both the material and efficient cause of the universe.
Shiva is seen as the sole reality and both the material and efficient cause of the universe.
Of the three realities admitted God, souls, and matter God is the independent reality, self-conscious, controller of the other two, free from all defects, abode of all good qualities, and both the material and efficient cause of the world.
As we noted in Section 11, one and the same thing may be the final, formal, and efficient cause of another.
Simplicius goes on to say that Ammonius devoted an entire book to arguing that, contrary to these Peripatetics, God was both final and efficient cause of both the movement and existence of the whole world, sublunar and supralunar.
Le Grand took seriously the claim that God is the total and efficient cause of motion in the universe, and that matter is entirely passive, and hence bodies are incapable of self-movement, or of moving other bodies.
In response to this very question Descartes replied that God did so in just the way that He created everything else, that He is the total and efficient cause not only of the existence of created things, but also of their essence.
Bhaskara viewed brahman as both the material and the efficient cause of the world.
Rather, his view is probably that we represent our endless progress toward holiness, beginning with this life and extending into infinity, as the efficient cause of our happiness, which likewise begins in this life and extends to a future one, in accordance with teleological laws that God authors and causes to harmonize with efficient causes in nature (A809 812/B837 840; 5:127–131, 447 450).
He searched for the efficient cause of his acute nostalgia, and found it was Molly Brammel, and a specific evening, forty years ago, at Margaret's.
According to Simplicius, Peripatetic interpreters, including Alexander of Aphrodisias, accepted that God was a final cause of the entire world, that God's moving the heavens made him indirectly the efficient cause of sublunar motion, and that he was also the efficient cause of the heavens' motion, but not of their existence as a substance (in Cael. 271,13 21; in Phys. 1360,24 1363,24).
