Brown, the journalist Joseph Bottum, the theologian Leo D. Lefebure, and the philosopher Roger Scruton, have seen Violence and the Sacred as a work that expresses or points toward a Christian religious perspective.
Noted thinkers Brown, journalist Joseph Bottum, philosopher Roger Scruton, and theologian Leo D. Lefebure have argued that Violence and the Sacred expresses a distinctly Christian viewpoint on violence, one that reflects the intersection of faith and morality.