| After a stint in parliamentary politics, he returned to the Church and was ordained at the age of 48, later to emerge as a leading Orthodox dogmatician. |
| The historian, the dogmatician, and the existentialist exegete all contribute valuable dimensions on preexistence that must be held in mutual critical tension. |
| A major Protestant tradition, culminating in the work of the important dogmatician Karl Barth, decided in favor of the first interpretation. |
| Loehe appropriated David Hollaz, the last great dogmatician of Lutheran orthodoxy in the eighteenth century. |
