Terminology Tuesday: Kalam Cosmological Argument
Version of the first-cause argument for God’s reality, developed by Islamic thinkers, which claims that the world must have had a beginning and that God must exist as the cause of that beginning. Defended in the twentieth century by William Craig. See also cosmological arguments; Islamic philosophy; theistic arguments.
Evans, C. S. (2002). Pocket Dictionary of Apologetics & Philosophy of Religion (p. 65). Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.