work of our hands and the hone of our swords must avail us.1 These authors’ vast mythical vision of the confrontation between the forces of good and evil reveals a sense that the Christian West was threatened by an evil that would destroy all remembrance of a culture based on Christian principles. In the 1940s, it was easy to identify this evil with Nazism and Marxism. These authors were no doubt concerned as they saw the religious soul of Western culture making way for the self-assured triumph of