Here is something from Carl Jung, that might have some interest to the current debate, that I came across unexpectedly today:
From a letter, "On Resurrection":
The gospel writers were as eager as St. Paul to heap miraculous qualities and spiritual significances upon that almost unkown young rabbi, who after a career lasting perhaps only one year had met with an untimely end. What they made of him we know, but we don't know to what extent this picture has anything to do with the truly historical man, smothered under an avalanche of projections. Whether he was the eternally living Christ and Logos, we don't know. It makes no difference, anyhow, since the image of the God-man lives in everybody and has been incarnated (i.e., projected) in the man Jesus, to make itself visible, so that people could realize him as their own interior homo, their self.
Thus they had regained their human dignity: everybody had divine nature. Christ had told them: Dii estis; "ye are gods"; and as such they were his breatheren, of his nature, and had overcome annihilation either through the power of the Caesar or through physical death. They were "resurrected with Christ".
Since we are psychic beings and not entirely dependent upon space and time, we can easily understand the central importance of the resurrection idea: we are not completely subjected to the powers of annihilation because our psychic totality reaches beyond the barrier of space and time. Through the progressive intergration of the unconscious we have a reasonable chance to make experiences of an archetypal nature providing us with the feeling of continuity before and after our existence. The better we understand the archtype, the more we participate in its life and the more we realize its eternity or timelessness.
from Jung on Death and Immortality, pp. 132
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