The chapter explores the idea of ‘the mystical Christ’ as it appears in Murdoch’s Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals and in her novels Henry and Cato, Nuns and Soldiers, The Good Apprentice, The Philosopher’s Pupil, the Book and the Brotherhood and The Green Knight. It analyses the roots of the idea in her thinking, which go far beyond the parallel she draws with ‘the mystical Buddha’, stemming from her interest in Buddhism from the early 1970s. Other influences are shown to be the cross of Christ at the centre of attentiveness to the world in Simone Weil, the existential Christ in the theology of Rudolph Bultmann and Paul Tillich, the divine ‘presence’ in the philosophy of religion of Donald Mackinnon and the ‘God in your own soul’ in the mystic Meister Eckhart. Despite Murdoch’s appeal to Buddhism, the main roots of Murdoch’s idea of ‘The Mystical Christ’ lie in her reading of Christian theology. Through close readings of the novels and her Metaphysics, the chapter argues that central to the idea is Murdoch’s conviction that people attempt to evade death of the self and the eventual death of the body through a religion of suffering, and that the Christ who ‘did not cheat death’ and yet who ‘travels with us’ is a presence that enables us both to face death and give attention to others.