The Life of David Brainerd
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| name = The Life of David Brainerd
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| author = Jonathan Edwards
| country = United States
| subject = Theology, biography
| publisher =
| pub_date = 1749
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The Life of David Brainerd, also called The Life and Diary of David Brainerd, is a biography of David Brainerd by evangelical theologian Jonathan Edwards, first published in 1749 under the title "An Account of the Life of the Late Rev. David Brainerd".
{{cite book
| author = J.M. Sherwood
| title = Memoirs of Rev. David Brainerd, missionary to the Indians of North America
| year = 1884
| url = https://archive.org/details/memoirsofrev00edwarich
| quote = An Account of the Life of the Late Rev. David Brainerd.
| publisher = Funk & Wagnalls
| page = xviii
| accessdate = 6 September 2009
}}
Contents
David Brainerd was an early 18th century American missionary to the Native Americans who had a particularly fruitful ministry among the Delaware Indians of New Jersey. The work was taken from Brainerd's own diary, but was substantially changed by Edwards in order to better present an example of a man who countered the Arminian viewpoint.
{{cite web
| url = http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300030044
| title = The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 7
| accessdate = 6 September 2009
| work = Yale University Press
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| url = https://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst;jsessionid=KkvMSJ7zC3C4Yydt6PyCFTqBYLkx2WZhhyYdDh4Jz3TZrlcZML52!-1899210215!1048096975?docId=90771902
| title = Jonathan Edwards's Most Popular Work: "The Life of David Brainerd" and Nineteenth-Century Evangelical Culture
| accessdate = 6 September 2009
| work = Joseph Conforti
}}
Impact
The work was a major influence on the domestic and foreign missionary movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and has been the most frequently reprinted book by Edwards.
{{cite web
| url = http://edwards.yale.edu/research/major-works/life-of-david-brainerd/
| title = Life of David Brainerd (1749)
| accessdate = 6 September 2009
| work = The Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University
}}
References
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External links
- [http://edwards.yale.edu/archive?path=aHR0cDovL2Vkd2FyZHMueWFsZS5lZHUvY2dpLWJpbi9uZXdwaGlsby9uYXZpZ2F0ZS5wbD93amVvLjY= The Life of David Brainerd], full text, on the Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University's website
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Category:18th-century Christian texts
Category:1749 non-fiction books
Category:Works by Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
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