Life and Diary of David Brainerd by Jonathan Edwards

Life and Diary of David Brainerd by Jonathan Edwards

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Life and Diary of David Brainerd by Jonathan Edwards

David Brainerd (1718-1747) was an American missionary to Native Americans who had a notably fruitful career among the Delaware Indians of New Jersey during his brief life. As a result, his biography has become a source of inspiration and encouragement to many Christians, including missionaries like William Carey and Jim Elliot, as well as Brainerd's cousin, thomas Brainerd.

Jonathan Edwards (October 5, 1703 - March 22, 1758) was a preacher, theologian, and missionary to Native Americans. Edwards is widely acknowledged to be America's most important and original philosophical theo- logian, and one of America's greatest intellectuals. Edwards's theological work is very broad in scope, but he is often associated with his defense of Reformed Theology, the metaphysics of theological determinism, and the Puritan heritage. Recent studies have emphasized how thoroughly Edwards grounded his life's work on conceptions of beauty, harmony, and ethical fittingness, and how central The Enlightenment was to his mindset. Edwards played a critical role in shaping the First Great Awakening, and oversaw some of the first fires of revival in 1733-1735 at his church in Northampton, Massachusetts. Edwards's sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, is considered a classic of early American literature, which he delivered during another wave of revival in 1741, following George Whitefield's tour of the Thirteen Colonies. Edwards is widely known for his many books: The End For Which God Created the World; The Life of David Brainerd, which served to inspire thousands of missionaries throughout the nineteenth century; and Religious Affections, which many Reformed Evangelicals read even today. Edwards died from a smallpox inoculation shortly after beginning the presidency at the College of New Jersey (later to be named Princeton University), and was the grandfather of Aaron Burr.
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ISBN 13 9781602065468
ISBN 10 1602065462
Title Life and Diary of David Brainerd
Author Jonathan Edwards
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Cosimo Classics
Year published 2007-06-01
Number of pages 384
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