Delitzsch was very appreciative of Hofmann's emphasis on a Heilsgeschichte that encompassed both the Old and New Testaments within a dynamic movement culminating in Christ. He also agreed in seeing a typological component that preserved the unity of the unfolding events by adumbrating the anticipated restoration of God's creation through a process of fulfillments. Finally, he shared with Hofmann the emphasis of earlier German pietism that true understanding of scripture was unlocked by means of the personal, subjective, religious experience of the interpreter.
