When one individual writer sings her song of beauty, she changes the lives of a million others.
It is quite likely. . . that the central figure of the gospels is not based on any historical individual. Put simply, not only is the theological "Christ of faith" a synthetic construct of theologians, a symbolic "Uncle Sam" figure, but if you could travel. . . back to First-Century Nazareth, you would not find a Jesus living there.