Vergilius Ferm

Vergilius Ture Anselm Ferm (January 6, 1896, Sioux City, Iowa – February 4, 1974, Wooster, Ohio) was the Compton professor of philosophy at the College of Wooster.

Selected published works

• Contemporary American theology (1932) [2 vols.]
• "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)

Further reading

• Vergilius Ferm, Memoirs of a College Professor; Telling it Like it Was, 428 pgs., Christopher Publishing House, North Quincy MA, 1971

External links

• "Dr. V. A. Ferm Publishes First Novel; Typical Small College Life Explored", from The Wooster Voice, November 19, 1954