Q: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
How did Luther's teaching about the afterlife compare to other theologians?, Context: 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.
A:
differed