The Life of David Brainerd explained

The Life of David Brainerd
Author:	Jonathan Edwards
Country:	United States
Subject:	Theology, biography
Pub Date:	1749

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".^[1]

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.^{[2] [3]}

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.^[4]

External links

• The Life of David Brainerd, full text, on the Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University's website

Notes and References

1. Book: J.M. Sherwood. Memoirs of Rev. David Brainerd, missionary to the Indians of North America. 1884. An Account of the Life of the Late Rev. David Brainerd.. Funk & Wagnalls. xviii. 6 September 2009.
2. Web site: The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 7. 6 September 2009. Yale University Press.
3. Web site: Jonathan Edwards's Most Popular Work: "The Life of David Brainerd" and Nineteenth-Century Evangelical Culture. 6 September 2009. Joseph Conforti.
4. Web site: Life of David Brainerd (1749). 6 September 2009. The Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University.