
Given the following passage

"The Lutheran theologian Franz Pieper observed that Luther's teaching about the state of the Christian's soul after death differed from the later Lutheran theologians such as Johann Gerhard. Lessing (1755) had earlier reached the same conclusion in his analysis of Lutheran orthodoxy on this issue.",

answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text.

Question: How did Lessing's studies compare to Pieper's? 

reached the same conclusion
