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Wroot Press publishes primary-source editions and original works in Wesleyan, French Catholic, and patristic studies — print titles distributed through Amazon and digital reading editions hosted here.
The Wesley Library
Primary-source and reading editions of John Wesley — his memoirs, his sermons, and his Notes upon the New Testament — adapted and edited for readers today.
A Life in His Own Words
Wesley in Georgia
A Memoir of His Mission, 1735–1738
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Book 1 of the memoir series. Wesley's published journal of his failed Georgia mission, reshaped into continuous memoir. French edition forthcoming.
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Aldersgate
A Memoir of the Year His Heart Was Warmed, 1738–1739
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Book 2 of the memoir series. The year between Georgia and the revival — Böhler, the warmed heart, Herrnhut, the closing church doors. Paperback and Kindle, English and Spanish.
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The Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament
St. Matthew
The King James Text with the Explanatory Notes of John Wesley
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Volume I. The full King James text of Matthew with Wesley's note printed beneath each verse, and a critical apparatus tracing his sources. Mark, Luke, and John also available.
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St. Mark
The King James Text with the Explanatory Notes of John Wesley
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Volume II. The shortest Gospel, and the one where Wesley leans on almost nothing but Bengel — the apparatus shows him 'barely translating the Gnomon,' just as he said he would.
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St. Luke
The King James Text with the Explanatory Notes of John Wesley
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Volume III. The Gospel of the great parables — where the pastoral warmth long felt to be Wesley's own proves, in the apparatus, to be Doddridge's.
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St. John
The King James Text with the Explanatory Notes of John Wesley
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Volume IV. The most Bengel-dependent of the four — where the famous Logos gloss and the great anti-heresy readings are Bengel's, and Wesley's own hand shows in his grace-and-freedom re-slants.
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Wesley for Today
Wesley for Today
Sermons on the Way of Salvation
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Fourteen of Wesley's sermons on the way of salvation, adapted into direct contemporary English for readers today. Spanish edition available; French forthcoming.
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The Sermon on the Mount
Thirteen Discourses
Wesley's thirteen discourses on Matthew 5–7, adapted in the same contemporary voice. In preparation in English, Spanish, and French.
Wesley Dissertations
Wesley Dissertations
A Five-Volume Scholarly Edition
Paperback
A five-volume scholarly edition of John Wesley's dissertations, with apparatus and editorial notes.
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History of Methodism
The narrative history that started it all — drawn from the History of Methodism podcast, with primary-source citations throughout. Listen to the podcast →
History of Methodism
A Narrative History, drawn from the podcast
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A four-volume narrative history with primary-source citations. Volumes 1–2 live on Amazon in English and Spanish; French, German, Portuguese, and Finnish in preparation.
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Free downloads — Swahili, Hungarian, Korean
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Free PDF and EPUB editions in three languages Amazon KDP does not yet support for paperback — the same typeset interior as the print editions.
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French Catholic Letters
Charles Péguy and his Cahiers de la Quinzaine — the great early-twentieth-century French Catholic prose, in fresh editions and translations.
Charles Péguy — Les Cahiers
The Cahiers de la Quinzaine shelf
A shelf of print editions and translations from Péguy and his Cahiers de la Quinzaine — some two dozen titles in preparation.
Patristic & Devotional
Critical and devotional editions of the Fathers and the saints — Latin alongside English, edited for reading.
Ambrose of Milan
Exposition of Psalm 118
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A facing-page Latin–English edition of Ambrose's longest commentary, following Zelzer's CSEL 62 — in print and as a free digital reading edition.
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A Daily Devotional of the Saints
A daily devotional spun off from the Acta Sanctorum project — one entry per day, one saint per page, drawn from the Bollandist Latin and lightly modernised.
Digital Reading Editions
Free, hosted reading editions of primary sources — Latin and original-language text with English translation and apparatus.
Acta Sanctorum
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The flagship — a digital reading edition of the Bollandist Acta Sanctorum: Latin text, English translation, and apparatus, organised by feast day.
Read the edition →Bonaventure, Sentences
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Quaracchi-text reading edition of Bonaventure's Commentary on the Sentences, Latin alongside English, with scholion and apparatus criticus.
Read the edition →The Kierkegaard–Notabene Edition
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Bilingual critical edition of the eight phantom volumes of Nicolaus Notabene — Danish and English on facing pages, with a biographical companion.
Read the edition →Topographia Sacra
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Geographical editions of the place-heavy books of scripture — the World English Bible with maps and a gazetteer of every named place.
Read the edition →Loci
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Thematic reading editions of biblical books, each organised around an interpretive frame — Leviticus as an architecture of approach, Lamentations as an alphabet of grief.
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Annotated reading editions of the historic creeds and confessions, with line-level commentary. Seeded with the Apostles' Creed.
Read the edition →Difficult Passages
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A pastoral reference mapping the scholarly landscape on hard places in scripture — each entry gives the difficulty, then several historical responses.
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