But Meland's thinking was truly distinguished not by this, but by his insistence on the fallibility of religious forms and symbols — by his insistence that the reality experienced through empirical knowledge was simply uncapturable by the precisions so loved by the theologians, whether the precision of a Wieman who strove to define with ever - increasing
exactness the character of the creative event or of a Hartshorne who strove to state with ever - greater rigor the
necessary elements in a notion of God.