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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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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
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
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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.
Véronique
Dialogue of History and the Carnal Soul
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Péguy's dialogue between History and the carnal soul — on memory, the past, and the flesh that carries it. The first English translation, by Wilson Pruitt. Paperback and Kindle.
View details →Victor-Marie, comte Hugo
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Péguy's long 1910 essay on Hugo, Corneille, and the inheritance of greatness in French letters. The first English translation, by Wilson Pruitt. Paperback and Kindle.
View details →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 — Three Hundred Fifteen Lives of the Saints
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A year of the saints, a day at a time — 315 lives from January 1 to November 10, drawn from the Bollandist Acta Sanctorum and rendered into plain English. A companion in print to the digital reading edition.
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Doctrine & Tradition
Critical and reading editions of the Church's historic doctrinal texts — the defenders of the Nicene faith and the formularies of the Reformation — edited and translated for readers today.
The Books of Homilies
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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Critical and Theological Dissertations
On St. Athanasius and the Nicene Creed
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The first English translation of John Henry Newman's Latin dissertations of 1847 — close studies in the language and theology of St. Athanasius and the Nicene faith.
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Spirituality & Devotion
Devotional and formational writing for the practising Christian life — where the habits of the body and the soul meet.
BJJ and Jesus
Sixty Days on the Mat
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Sixty devotionals that read the positions of Brazilian jiu-jitsu against the life of faith — a pastor and practitioner on control, surrender, and the bodily discipline of following Christ.
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Digital Reading Editions
Free, hosted reading editions of primary sources — Latin and original-language text with English translation and apparatus.
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 →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 →Migne
The Patrologia in English
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Migne's Patrologia Latina and Graeca, rendered into English and made citable by volume and column — every work a page from day one, Latin and Greek alongside, translation lighting up the map one first-ever English rendering at a time.
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.
Read the edition →Catena
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Intertextual reading editions tracing how scripture quotes scripture — every quotation, allusion, and echo a book reaches back to, marked, sourced, and weighed. Seeded with Hebrews.
Read the edition →Annales Sacra
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Chronological reading editions that lay scripture's years flat — two kingdoms on one timeline, the reigns and synchronisms Kings tells in a braid, the life of Paul, a gospel harmony.
Read the edition →Voces
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Reading editions that color every line by who is speaking — the debate buried in Job, the divine voice inside the Psalms, the unlabeled dialogue of the Song of Songs, the choirs of Revelation. Seeded with five books.
Read the edition →Doctrine
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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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