Posted: May 06, 2012 10:34 pm
proudfootz wrote: But it seems to me that perhaps we are witnessing something which might move the debate in new directions, and perhaps the indication that there is indeed the possibility of real and lively debate might bring fresh blood and fresh perspectives into the field.
I imagine a gradual process where the question is taken more seriously. Non-historical Jesus will take a place among the options, and everything else will pretty much move on as before. Possible non-Historicity of Buddha hasn't seriously affected Buddhism. I doubt, to use a phrase I last heard at RDnet, if the top of anybody's head will come off.
