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Reformation & Methodism
The Protestant and Wesleyan tradition, from Arminius to the Wesleys.
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A Christian Library
In Fifty Volumes
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Wesley's own 1749–55 devotional anthology, restored to its original fifty-volume shape — the Apostolic Fathers, Arndt, Foxe, and on. Published one volume at a time; also a free digital reading edition.
View details →The Bible with Wesley's Notes
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The King James Bible alongside John Wesley's Explanatory Notes Upon the Old and New Testament, side by side — free to read, cover to cover.
Read the edition →Milton, De Doctrina Christiana
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Parallel Latin–English reading edition of Milton's theological treatise, from Sumner's 1825 editio princeps, with every scriptural citation indexed. In progress, chapter by chapter.
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Lancelot Andrewes, Preces Privatae
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The private prayers of Lancelot Andrewes in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew, from the 1853 Parker text, with the Wroot Press English on facing lines — the whole apparatus, a scripture index, and a synopsis setting the Creed and confession against the Harley recension that rewrites them. The print Loeb edition is available in paperback.
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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 →Arminius — The Public Disputations
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A free edition of Jacob Arminius's Leiden public disputations: the Latin (or, where the Latin is lost, the Dutch) beside a first English translation. Working draft.
Read the edition →These Three Marks
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A study document on ordination, commissioning, licensing, and episcopacy in The United Methodist Church.
Read the edition →Which Hymn Are You?
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Answer 22 questions about how you pray, worship and hope, and find the hymn in The United Methodist Hymnal that sings most like you.
Read the edition →The Journal of John Wesley
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Travel John Wesley's journal on an inked chart — the voyage to Georgia, Savannah and Frederica, the flight home, Peter Böhler, Aldersgate, Herrnhut, and the New Year love-feast.
Read the edition →The History of Methodism Podcast
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The History of Methodism Podcast covers the history of the Methodist and Wesleyan movements, from its precursors in the European Reformation to the present day.
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In print
Wesley's Metaphysics
A Summa for Subscribers
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John Wesley never wrote a system of divinity, and said he never would. Yet across half a century of occasional sermons a single, consistent metaphysic runs from end to end. This book reconstructs the plan of the system he had all along.
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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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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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The Acts of the Apostles
The King James Text with the Explanatory Notes of John Wesley
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Volume V. The narrative bridge from the Gospels to the Epistles — the birth of the Church and the journeys of Paul, with Wesley's note beneath each verse and the apparatus tracing his sources.
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Romans & First Corinthians
The King James Text with the Explanatory Notes of John Wesley
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Volume VI. The first of the Epistles — the doctrinal core where Wesley's own hand shows most plainly, with his note beneath each verse and the apparatus tracing his sources.
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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
A Four-Volume Scholarly Edition
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A four-volume scholarly edition of John Wesley's dissertations, with apparatus and editorial notes.
View on Amazon →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.
View on Amazon →Translated Editions
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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The Books of Homilies
Volume I: The First Book (1547)
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Volume I. The first clean modern critical edition of the First Book (1547) — the twelve homilies of Cranmer's circle, modernized with a full apparatus and a general introduction.
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The Books of Homilies
Volume II: The Second Book (1563 & 1571)
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Volume II. The first clean modern critical edition of the Second Book — Jewel's twenty-one homilies, ending with Against Wilful Rebellion, modernized with a full apparatus.
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Other shelves
- Fontes Patrum — The Fathers and the medieval masters, in Latin, Greek and English.
- Scripture & Its Readers — The Bible, its ancient witnesses, and the ways it has been read.