Evangelical Revival · 1749

The Life of David Brainerd

Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)

Jonathan Edwards compiled and edited this biography from the diary and personal papers of David Brainerd, the young missionary to Native Americans who died at twenty-nine. The work became one of the most influential missionary texts in church history, inspiring figures from William Carey to Jim Elliot with its portrait of consecrated suffering, intercessory prayer, and perseverance without visible fruit. Edwards framed Brainerd's life as a living exhibition of genuine religion, and offered it as a counter to both cold formalism and enthusiastic disorder in the era of the Great Awakening.

11 hrs total · 10 chapters