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Jonathan Geltner

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Jonathan Geltner

@GeltnerJonathan

husband, father, writer. Paul Claudel's Five Great Odes (Angelico Press 2020); Absolute Music: a novel (Slant Books 2022)

Michigan, USA

jonathangeltner.substack.com

Joined September 2018

Jonathan Geltner
@GeltnerJonathan
Mar 25, 2025
Replying to @GShaneMorris
The Christian aversion to the Harry Potter books, whose author has avowed that the books are inspired by her Christian faith, is one of the most embarrassing examples of Christian prudery and philistinism to occur in my lifetime.
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Jonathan Geltner
@GeltnerJonathan
Apr 12, 2024
Replying to @owroot and @NecktieSalvage
How I would love to manually roll down a window just one more time.
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Jonathan Geltner
@GeltnerJonathan
Apr 9, 2025
Amazing how much you need the book on the right to understand the book on the left.
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Jonathan Geltner
@GeltnerJonathan
Jun 27, 2022
In my next book - on #literaryfantasy, faith, cosmos, ecology - I'm thinking of including an essay on Robert Jordan. Do people still talk about his Wheel of Time? I think he was one of the great religious literary writers of the last 100 years, only true peer of Gene Wolfe.
Jonathan Geltner
@GeltnerJonathan
Jan 4, 2025
First book read in 2025: as the author says, a long essay. And it is a fine one, displaying clarity, equanimity, culture and a deep-running, quiet good humor, as befits the subject. I appreciate the suggestion of Mary Magdalen as patron saint of the 21st century.
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Jonathan Geltner
@GeltnerJonathan
Dec 27, 2024
Epiphany is the earliest acceptable time to take down Christmas decorations. Candlemas if you’re serious about life.
Alicia E. Stallings
@ae_stallings
Dec 27, 2024
I do not want to read about people taking down their Christmas decorations already. 12 days of Christmas people! 12 days!
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Jonathan Geltner
@GeltnerJonathan
Oct 10, 2023
New favorite bedtime reading: an English metaphysical poet on the wild fringe of colonial New England.
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Jonathan Geltner
@GeltnerJonathan
Sep 24, 2023
Current most keenly anticipated 2024 publication. amazon.com/gp/aw/d/150955…
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Jonathan Geltner
@GeltnerJonathan
Jan 24, 2025
Latest acquisition. Very much looking forward to reading Labat. Bishop Varden, whose book Chastity I recently read, translated and introduced this edition.
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Jonathan Geltner
@GeltnerJonathan
Dec 11, 2023
I consider myself well read in theology and the philosophy and history of religion, but this series I’ve never read all through. Finally giving it a go with the partial aim of better understanding how Christianity lost its earthy and cosmic roots. Pelikan was interesting: /
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Jonathan Geltner
@GeltnerJonathan
May 10, 2024
I am unexpectedly, suddenly, rapidly writing a new short novel, set in Ohio in the summer of 1999, and somehow these two books represent the core of my "research." I think you'll enjoy this book. It's a kind of romance in the antique sense. I know I'm enjoying writing it.
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Jonathan Geltner
@GeltnerJonathan
Apr 24, 2025
Wonderful book of poetry. It’s been a while since I read Miłosz and I don’t think I ever before read anything from this volume. Many thanks to @CarlaGaldoVA for the tip, proving this site occasionally has its uses.
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Jonathan Geltner
@GeltnerJonathan
Sep 20, 2023
I wish this book were much more widely known.
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Jonathan Geltner
@GeltnerJonathan
Mar 18, 2025
Preparing for class tomorrow it occurs to me that the Shield of Achilles is among my favorite passages in literature. I think it comes from what was even to Homer the deep past, the lost world of the Minoans: that’s part of its power. I appreciate it more than when I was young.
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