What did Christians in England make of Murdoch’s philosophical work in the years before the Gifford lectures of 1982 that were to become Metaphysics as a guide to morals? This chapter considers Christian reactions to Murdoch’s work, and in particular to The Sovereignty of Good, with regard to matters of metaphysics, aesthetics and ethics. It places Murdoch among her contemporaries: members of a transitional generation shaped before the discursive secularisation of the 1960s and 1970s, and possessors of what Basil Mitchell termed ‘the traditional conscience’. In all three areas, Christian readers found much of use in Murdoch’s work, while suspecting that the theism she rejected was the missing piece that would in fact bring her project to completion.