Vergilius Ferm
Vergilius Ture Anselm Ferm (January 6, 1896, Sioux City, Iowa – February 4, 1974, Wooster, Ohio)[1] was the Compton Professor of Philosophy at the College of Wooster.[2][3][4]
Selected published works
- Contemporary American theology (1932) [2 vols.][5]
- "Theology and Religious Experience" (pp. 26–43) in The Nature of Religious Experience: Essays in Honor of Douglas Clyde Macintosh (1937)
- Religion In Transition (1937)
- An encyclopedia of religion (1945)
- What Can We Believe? (1948)
- Religion in the twentieth century (1948)
- Ancient Religions: A Symposium (1950)
- A history of philosophical systems (1950)
- Ancient religions (1950)
- A Protestant dictionary (1951)
- The Protestant credo (1953)
- A dictionary of pastoral psychology (1955)
- Pictorial history of Protestantism (1957)
- A Brief Dictionary of American Superstitions (1959)
- Classics of Protestantism (1959)
- Toward an expansive Christian theology (1964)
- Living schools of religion (1965)
- Encyclopedia of morals (1969)
- Cross-currents in the personality of Martin Luther; a study in the psychology of religious genius (1972)
- Philosophy beyond the classroom (1974)
- Lightning never strikes twice (if you own a feather bed): and 1904 other American superstitions from the ordinary to the eccentric (1989)
References
- ^ Overview @ Oxford Reference
- ^ Buckwalter, H. Douglas (1991). Douglas, J. D. (ed.). New 20th-Century Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge. Baker Book House. p. 327. ISBN 978-0-8010-3002-4.
- ^ Shook, John R. (1 January 2005). Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers. A&C Black. pp. 764–765. ISBN 978-1-84371-037-0.
- ^ Foyle, L. C. (3 June 1954). "Pastor to Preach Farewell Sermon". New London, Conn.: The Day. p. 29.
- ^ Atencio, Mitchell (25 February 2025). "Why Does a Theologian Write a Memoir?". Sojourners.
Further reading
- Vergilius Ferm, Memoirs of a College Professor; Telling it Like it Was, 428 pgs., Christopher Publishing House, North Quincy MA, 1971 ISBN 978-0-8158-0246-4
External links
- "Dr. V. A. Ferm Publishes First Novel; Typical Small College Life Explored", from The Wooster Voice, November 19, 1954