The Footprints of Mormonism

John Wayne Wardell

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Austin Macauley Publishers
23 May 2025

Religion: general

Many of us have had the experience of finding two nice young people with white shirts knocking on their door and finding out they are Mormon missionaries. The Mormon faith is uniquely noted for sending such missionaries all over the world. The founder of Mormonism was Joseph Smith and the study of his life, though complex, is most interesting at the same time. To his followers, Joseph Smith is considered to be second in importance only to Jesus Christ in all of Church history. How Smith came to lead this movement is a captivating story on its own, and how he came to die is a sordid tale in American history. The Mormon faith started out as just a small inner circle of Joseph Smith's relatives and it has grown to be a very large movement of multiple millions of adherents. Most of the early leaders of Mormonism were very controversial because they practiced polygamy which they called celestial marriage. Joseph Smith himself had at least thirty-seven wives. Brigham Young, the second leader of the Church, had over fifty wives. The main Mormon body with its headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah, has long since abandoned polygamous practice. Splinter groups, however, separated from the main Utah Church and continue even today the practice of polygamy. One of those main splinter churches is centred in Colorado City, Arizona. This Fundamentalist group asserts that polygamy is a deep spiritual duty ordered by God Himself that is required to reach the highest heaven. Warren Jeffs is the leader of this group, and some estimate that he has around eighty-seven wives. He however is no longer with any of his wives because he is now serving multiple years in jail for sex crimes connected to minors. This book covers all of the foregoing matters in refined detail and provides new insight and research into all of the issues connected to the history, the theology and the politics of the Mormon faith.

By: John Wayne Wardell
Imprint: Austin Macauley Publishers
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781398446731
ISBN 10: 1398446734
Pages: 594
Publication Date: 23 May 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

John Wayne Wardell is a Canadian, born in Alliston, Ontario. He graduated from Emmanuel Bible College with a B.Th. and from the University of Waterloo with a B.A. He went on and completed an M.A. at the University of Waterloo and a M.Div. at Knox Seminary in Toronto. He also has further training in Counselling with the Clinical Association of Pastoral Education, and he became a Specialist in Institutional ministry. John has been an active minister for over forty years in various settings. For five of those years, he was the senior Chaplain of a maximum-security prison in Canada. He has retired now, but most recently he was the pastor of a church in Toronto where he served for twenty years. He is married to a wonderful lady named Earldine who is his helpmate in the ministry. The study of history and theology has always been his passion. His varied experience and education have only increased this passion. In the following pages you will see that he doesn't avoid controversial issues - but rather he deals with many such issues in great detail. In his analysis of the extensive history of Mormonism he does not try to conceal his adherence to the historic Christian faith as it is presented in the Old and New Testament. His interpretation of events and theology however is, first and foremost, based on his exhaustive research. Even if you do not agree with all his conclusions, you will find this book thought provoking and challenging.