ABSTRACT
Readers of Iris Murdoch's novels will be familiar with those moments when someone says, 'God would live here if God existed', or something like that. There are points of crisis, of the recognition of moral clarity and moral extremity, when characters perceive their situation as one that is not properly coped with in the usual framework of reasonable calculation about human actions. It is in the context that Richard Harries has worked and spoken; and the remarkable degree to which his voice has been credible has been the degree to which he has found a way between the stereotypes the author have just outlined and returned to something more like the Iris Murdoch question: if God existed, where would God now live? That is, what are the points at which the spirit's wholeness is involved in the choices we face? Wholeness of spirit is then something other than just witnessing to a clearly right or just course of action.
