''The Life of David Brainerd'', also called ''The Life and Diary of David Brainerd'', is a biography of
David Brainerd by
evangelical
Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide, interdenominational movement within Protestantism, Protestant Christianity that emphasizes evangelism, or the preaching and spreading of th ...
theologian
Jonathan Edwards, first published in 1749 under the title "''An Account of the Life of the Late Rev. David Brainerd''".
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David Brainerd was an early 18th century
American missionary
A missionary is a member of a Religious denomination, religious group who is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.Thoma ...
to the
Native Americans who had a particularly fruitful ministry among the
Delaware Indians of
New Jersey
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. 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
Arminianism is a movement of Protestantism initiated in the early 17th century, based on the Christian theology, theological ideas of the Dutch Reformed Church, Dutch Reformed theologian Jacobus Arminius and his historic supporters known as Remo ...
viewpoint.
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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.
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References
External links
The Life of David Brainerd full text, on the Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University's website
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18th-century Christian texts
1749 non-fiction books
Diaries
American biographies
Works by Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
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