Sentence examples for causality of god from inspiring English sources

Dionysius may understand the causality of God directly, and yet still find it helpful to compare God's causality to the emanation of light from the sun.

But intelligibility, our most general understanding of the world of physical objects, of space, of causality, of God, and so on is grounded in these abstract ideas.

On the other hand, when the names are used only of God as cause, the prefixes may be left off, since the causality of God is already a procession into the differentiation properly signified by each of the different names.

But the believer certainly does feel very dependent on God in the ordinary sense of 'dependent.' In so feeling, the believer attributes causality to God as the creator, preserver, and redeemer of the believer's life; and this concept of causality is not "borrowed from natural science," as Otto suggests, but antedates natural science by several millennia.

There is a continuing discussion of Arnauld's attitude toward the view which Descartes expressed in answer to Mersenne's question "by what kind of causality God established the eternal truths".

By what kind of causality did God create the eternal (necessary) truths?

He says that while some wish to reserve that term for the efficient causality of the first cause (God), he favors the opposite view: "creation" is properly said of every agent which gives being to an effect whose existence is not preceded by privation in matter.

In Christian Religion, she frames other arguments for God's existence in terms of what we can and cannot doubt; God's perfections and our ideas of God's perfections; causality; and the beauty of the created universe (Astell 1705, 7 10 [sections 7 10]).

As Adam Garfinkle, the editor of The American Interest, put it in an essay recently, for this sort of person "there is no need for causality, since that would imply a diminution of God's power".

Quoting Adam Garfinkle in The American Interest, Brooks writes that "for this sort of person, 'there is no need for causality, since that would imply a diminution of God's power.' This sort of person 'does not accept the existence of an objective fact separate from how he feels about it.'".

According to that theory of efficient causality, God is the only true efficient cause.