This means that He acts as both a final and efficient cause.

An efficient cause is an agent which brings about some effect.

Thus only efficient cause is what would now be called causation.

Hence: The chief or most powerful motive; the efficient cause of action.

Brahman is the material and efficient cause of the universe.

Both God and the human authors are efficient causes.

Aristotle held that there are basically four causes in nature: the efficient cause, the matter, the end, and the form.

Furthermore these are said to have emanated from God, who is both their formal and efficient cause.

The only active power (hence the only efficient cause of change in the world) is God.

The efficient cause is that external thing that causes the change in the first place.

(c) refers to the efficient cause, what brings about the beginning of, or change to, a being.

"We discern in all sensible things a certain chain of efficient causes.

Nous, for him, was a mechanical, efficient cause, not a final cause.

The efficient cause corresponds to what is now known as a cause simpliciter.

In general, occasionalism is the view that there are no efficient causes in the full sense other than God.

In Aristotelian terminology, this use approximates to the case of the efficient cause.

The efficient cause, or Agent, is the sculptor.

Efficient cause, which imparts the first notable change, as a human lifts a rock or raises a statue.

The formal or efficient cause- God breathed into his nostrils the breath (neshamah) of life.

He is identical with the Stoic "efficient cause."

Only as to the material and efficient causes of them, and not as to the forms."

The efficient cause is the one that produces the necessary effect, as long as the necessary and sufficient conditions are provided.

The efficient cause is "the primary source", or that from which the change or the ending of the change first starts.

From the point of view of the water produced, the reaction of oxygen and hydrogen is the efficient cause.

God is viewed as the efficient cause, and human deeds produce their results under the control and cooperation of God.