A more via media corrective for those who lack healthy male role models in their lives. May be helpful to read for those who are disillusioned by John Wayne republican evangelicalism because they read Du Mez's Jesus and John Wayne or Beth Allison Barr etc. Moore is at his best when he pulls from a variety of myths, poems, and fairy tales to illustrate how each archetype is reiterated throughout history, making up a sort of collective unconscious that coincides with Jung's project (and more emphatically in Joseph Campbell's works).

Moore is sometimes a bit over the top with his claims though, and it's really off-putting: "It is because of [the Egyptians'] discovery of the warrior within themselves that Egyptian morality and ethics, as well as such fundamental religious ideas as judgment after death and a paradise beyond the grave in which righteous souls would become one with God, became a part of our own Western system of ethics and spirituality." Lolwut? You believe in a collective resurrection? Thank the male Egyptians with extra testosterone for that idea.