ABSTRACT
In the determinist model all human action is explained by efficient causes. In this model a person's actions are all explicable in terms of stimuli to which the person reacts. In the determinist model everything that a human being does is caused entirely by an external agent. There is no essential difference between the theory of action for an inanimate object and for an animate one. In this model human motivation is explained in terms of efficient causes, along the classical lines of the determinist theory. Therefore in the religious model there are actions the source of which is to be found in him. In essence, it seems to the author, this is what differentiates the religious view from the determinist one. The determinist model arose out of the scientific thinking of the last century. It was borne out of a determined repudiation of a mythological cosmogony believed and preached by the major religious systems existing in the West.
