This essay addresses two questions: first, concerning critical disagreement with Iris Murdoch about her self-perception; second, concerning what it is to be ‘Christian’. Murdoch disavowed the idea that she was a philosophical-novelist and put early critics off exploring that notion. Since her death scholars have experienced a new-found freedom to challenge this disconnection and to analyse the fruitful interplay between Murdoch’s fiction and her philosophy. Murdoch further dissociated herself from Virginia Woolf and it was not until 2014 that Donna Lazenby’s monograph A Mystical Philosophy and my essay in Iris Murdoch Connected broke her interdiction on connecting their work. This chapter similarly questions Murdoch’s veto on viewing her as Christian. The dictionary definition of ‘Christian’ offers ‘relating to or professing Christianity or its teachings’ and ‘a person who has received baptism or is a believer in Christianity’. Murdoch was both baptised and confirmed in the Church of England: however, she was clear that she did not ‘believe’ in Christianity which she subjects to rigorous criticism. Nonetheless her work patently engages with Christianity, she clings to the figure of Christ, and adheres to the values of transcendence and mysticism. This chapter contends that just as Murdoch may fairly be called a philosophical-novelist and seen as the inheritor of Woolf, she may also coherently and retrospectively be counted as Christian. I would incur her wrath, but I will nonetheless argue the case.