sentences:  Stockhardt, writing in opposition, says the well-known theologians Thomasius, Frank, Delitsch, Martensen, von Hoffman and Zoeckler all argued that the Father is God in the primary sense, and the Son and the Spirit are God in second and third degree.He criticises most sharply the Leipzig theologian, Karl Friedrich Augustus Kahnis (1814-1888).For these Lutheran theologians, God was God, Jesus Christ was God in some lesser way.