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Question #11

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Is God the unmoved mover of Aristotle’s teachings???

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Answer

• Aristotle was a student of Plato, who taught that the ultimate reality was composed of ideal Forms, and that one primary “good” entity—the Demiurge—had created reality. Aristotle took a less personal and more abstract approach. He developed the idea of an un-moved mover from an earlier concept of un-moved movers (plural). Aristotle’s writings follow a chain of logic and observation to the idea that, in order for there to be “motion,” there had to be something to cause it: a “mover.”

• The concept of an “un-moved mover” has been discussed at least since the time of early Greek philosophers. Aristotle is most famously credited with establishing this idea, though he may not have been the very first to frame the concept this way.

• This line of reasoning and Aristotle’s argument in favor of it were later used in the context of Christian theology by Thomas Aquinas, who pointed to God as the Un-Moved Mover. This was part of Aquinas’ cosmological argument, one of his five ways. However, there are crucial differences between the way Aristotle viewed his un-moved mover and the way later theologians such as Aquinas used it as a reference to the God of the Bible..

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Psalm 19:1

¶ 1.The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.'

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Romans 1:19–20

19. Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. 20. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse.

John 1:1–3

1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

' 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

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Source: 'King James Version' (KJV)

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