Thanks. I was struck by the point that Campbell's "hero" was just an articulation of Nietzsche's Übermensch.

I'm always amazed at how many artists of the 1950s & 1960s were devoted to the Übermensch, and becoming an unlimited figure--from Kerouac to Kubrick to Joni Mitchell.

Indeed, Evangelicalism might also be an expression of the Superman. I think of Jim Elliot's first letter to Betty Howard- in 1949- quoting from 'Thus Spake Zarathustra', and I suspect his approach to the Ecuadorian natives could be seen as a Nietzschean act. I also think of Billy Graham at the Olympic stadium in Berlin in 1954:

“I’m not believing in some effeminate character. I’m believing in a real he-man, a real man who had a strong jaw and strong shoulders. I believe that Jesus Christ was the most perfectly developed physical specimen in the history of the world. He never had sin deform his body. He would have been one of the great athletes of all times. Every inch a man! I can believe in that Christ! I can follow that Christ!”

So in this improvised theology, 'Christ' is the Superman, where Campbell tries to find it in scenes from world mythology.