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Personally, I view Christ as a literary figure more than anything. But that aside...
Jesus has 'empiricle' evidence about his existence. A well renowned Jewish historian by the name of Josephus (sp) wrote a few blurbs about Jesus proclaiming himself messiah. Josephus in no way supported/knew personally Jesus. He was just the historian of the time.
I think that it is most fruitful to percieve Jesus as both a literary figure and as a thelogical-philosopher. Even Nietzsche, who wrote a book called The Antichrist, who hated Christianity and proclaimed aetheisim eventually found an immeanse respect for Jesus. love him or hate him, he is one of the great genius of the world. And we all owe him a lot in our culture.
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