Emmet Fox was an Irish New Thought spiritual leader of the early 20th century, primarily through years of the Great Depression, until his death in 1951.
11 Facts About Emmet Fox
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Emmet Fox is today considered a spiritual godparent of Alcoholics Anonymous.
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Emmet Fox's father, Joseph Francis Fox, who died when Fox was still in his teens, was a physician and Member of Parliament.
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Emmet Fox attended St Ignatius' College, a Jesuit secondary school near Stamford Hill.
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Emmet Fox studied New Thought from the time of his late teens; discovering his healing powers early.
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Emmet Fox came to know the prominent New Thought writer Thomas Troward.
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Emmet Fox attended the London meeting at which the International New Thought Alliance was organized in 1914.
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Emmet Fox gave his first New Thought talk in Mortimer Hall in London in 1928.
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Emmet Fox became immensely popular, and spoke to large church audiences during the Depression, holding weekly services for up to 5,500 people at the New York Hippodrome until 1938 and subsequently at Carnegie Hall.
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Emmet Fox was ordained in the Divine Science branch of New Thought.
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Emmet Fox's writing, especially The Sermon on the Mount, became popular in AA.