They also believe that there is no valid reason to suppose that any other reality exists. Tillich, Barth, and Pannenberg all seem to assert something like this. This belief is required to undergird the meaningfulness of our otherwise utterly transient existence individually and historically. Others hold to the belief in continuing life after death either immediately or after the end of history. To them simply preserving what has been is quite unsatisfactory.
Christian hope is for new life, a fulfilled and transformed life.
Process theologians can be found in all three camps. This is Whitehead's Consequent Nature of God and is the emphatic position of Hartshorne. Marjorie Suchocki has developed this notion in such a way that it incorporates many of the values of the third camp as well. Although Whitehead's emphasis falls here, he also recognizes that his metaphysics allows for continuing existence of primarily mental occasions after the death of the body. This is unusual in the history of philosophy, since most metaphysical systems have either demonstrated the necessary truth of personal immortality or shown its impossibility.