The Life of David Brainerd
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| The Life of David Brainerd | |
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| Author(s) | Jonathan Edwards |
| Country | United States |
| Subject(s) | Theology, Biography |
| Publication 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]. 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] 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]
[edit] References
- ^ J.M. Sherwood. "Memoirs of Rev. David Brainerd, missionary to the Indians of North America". Funk & Wagnalls. p. xviii. http://books.google.com/books?id=5ucbAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PR18&ots=_ms6ikN-GB&dq=%22An%20Account%20of%20the%20Life%20of%20the%20Late%20Rev.%20David%20Brainerd%22&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q=%22An%20Account%20of%20the%20Life%20of%20the%20Late%20Rev.%20David%20Brainerd%22&f=false. Retrieved 6 September, 2009.
- ^ "The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 7". Yale University Press. http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300030044. Retrieved 6 September 2009.
- ^ "Jonathan Edwards's Most Popular Work: "The Life of David Brainerd" and Nineteenth-Century Evangelical Culture". Joseph Conforti. http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst;jsessionid=KkvMSJ7zC3C4Yydt6PyCFTqBYLkx2WZhhyYdDh4Jz3TZrlcZML52!-1899210215!1048096975?docId=90771902. Retrieved 6 September 2009.
- ^ "Life of David Brainerd (1749)". The Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University. http://edwards.yale.edu/research/major-works/life-of-david-brainerd/. Retrieved 6 September 2009.
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