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Nome canónico: Fox, Emmet
Nome legal: Fox, Joseph Emmet
Data de nascimento: 1886-07-30
Data de falecimento: 1951-08-13
Sexo: male
Nacionalidade: Ireland
Local de nascimento: Cobh, County Cork, Ireland
Local de falecimento: Paris, France
Locais de residência: Ireland
England, UK
USA
France
Educação: St Ignatius' College
Ocupações: minister (New Thought)
writer
speaker
electrical engineer
Organizações: Religious Science, New Thought, Unity
International New Thought Alliance
Divine Science Church of the Healing Christ
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425: Emmet Fox was born in Ireland on July 30, 1886, was educated in England, pursued his spiritual career mostly in the United States, and died in France on August 13, 1951.

His father, who died before Fox was ten, was a physician and member of Parliament. Fox attended Stamford Hill Jesuit college near London, and became an electrical engineer. However, he early discovered that he had healing power, and from the time of his late teens studied New Thought. He came to know the prominent New Thought writer Thomas Troward.

Fox attended the London meeting at which the International New Thought Alliance was organized in 1914. He gave his first New Thought talk in Mortimer Hall in London in 1928. Soon he went to the United States, and in 1931 was selected to become the successor to the James Murray as the minister of New York's Church of the Healing Christ. Fox became immensely popular, and spoke to audiences in some of the largest halls in the city. He was ordained in the Divine Science branch of New Thought.

While Emmet Fox lived he addressed some of the largest audiences ever gathered to hear one man's thoughts on the religious meaning of life. His books and pamphlets have been distributed to over three million people and it can be conservatively estimated that they have come into the hands of ten million.

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Power through constructive thinking por Emmet Fox

This book shows that your destiny is really in your own hands, because it is impossible to think one thing and produce another, and that by selection of correct thought a harmonious and happy life is produced.

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PendleHillLibrary | 2 outras críticas | Feb 29, 2024 |

Power Through Constructive Thinking por Emmet Fox

Similarly as with Richard, (although they differ on some things), with Emmet I went through this vague catch-a-catch-phrase phase, (below, incidentally), and then went through a period of marked disillusionment (mercifully deleted), and now I feel like I’ve somewhat arrived at least at a true beginning to understanding the doctrine of “life building through constructive thought”. (Yes, thesis, antithesis, and synthesis: like Hegel living, dying and rising again with Christ in his mind—imitating Paul, imitating Christ.)

Anyway, the key for me (the classifier: words are not everything, although many scientists are in love with words and names and form, although apparently another scientist, a Richard Feynman, a physicist, who might not directly be in spirituality, reminded people that names are not everything, to which another scientist in a different field—if you’ll permit me—rather stupidly said that Richard F does not understand /his/ field, because in his own /distinct/ field (ecology), words Are Indeed everything. But that’s science for you—or scientists. Society thinks science is survival—“the best thing”—so somebody has to do science, preferably somebody else, but maybe more somebody else’s than are really needed, perhaps, but then they’re to be got in by success-and-survival-through-science, and then as soon as they’re in the door they’re to be driven out again (like the old, You must marry! followed by But who do you think will marry you, you rotten whore! The nerve of you! LOL), by science-cannot-be-applied, it’s not philosophy or religion or culture (unless I like it—uptight repressed white boys from the 50s, maybe, but only because they’re so worthless), it’s just…. Science! So join science today, because…. (ad runs), you know. It’s just for the sake of Knowledge, through what it means we cannot interpret correctly, because we cannot interpret at all, because I forbid you to interpret it, because it’s Just Science, and that’s the correct interpretation. 👌

I’m sure that sounds bitter. But when you like people, you tell them what you think of them. When you stop loving people, you stop telling them what you think of them, because what’s there to be gained?…. And, you know, for all the perils of recentism, society does need to change, and science represents change for a lot of people, and is a sort of change, so…. But I digress. Emmet has a minimalist approach to everything—even the Bible, and certainly philosophy and science. He didn’t bother. He had his trade.)

ANYWAY, the key for me, the classifier, is that Emmet is not so much a practical preacher, as a very spiritual success coach. One’s not better than the other; there are many gifts. Some are created practical preachers, others spiritual success coaches. It’s just important to know what you’re reading. The Bible is very important to him, but he’s not really defending or milling about the castle of Christianity, defending the intellectual system of Christianity, even though he’s using the Bible. A theologian, certainly, and even most preachers and Bible commentators, would sit around discuss Is it permissible, and would come to the conclusion (for example) It is permissible, and would dismiss you. But that’s not business. Emmet equally isn’t a preacher, and much of the system of the church is left out of his message. But if it’s permissible to go to work in the morning, it’s surely permissible to make work more holy, even if your success coach isn’t teaching you everything that your spiritual director does.

I really think that a lot of both false praise (this sounds great…. Wait, was it about business?) and false blame (ugly mammon! Ugly mammon! Now, get out of my sight! And, while you’re at it—get off of welfare! And give money to the church!) would be avoided, you know.

…. “And what would all your practical learning be like, if you didn’t know the place of God in your business,” said the ant; “and how godly would you be in all your affairs, if you willfully decided not to take care of yourself,” said the fox.

Ant-Fox! Ant-Fox!

🐜 🦊

…. There is no kind of potato we can’t grow if we believe that we can learn how, and put it in the earth, and wait for it to grow.… (mais)

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goosecap | 2 outras críticas | Apr 19, 2023 |

Descubra e Utilize a sua Força Interior por Emmet Fox

Um livro repleto de mensagens de inspiração e bom senso. Comece cada dia com uma dessas mensagens. São sugestgões amigas e sensatas que têm indicado a milhares de leitores os meios de conseguir o máximo de vida.

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EUDISTABR | Feb 22, 2021 |

Power Through Constructive Thinking por Emmet Fox

I’ve read the essay on the Lord’s Prayer several times, both at the beginning of this book and at the end of “The Sermon on the Mount”, but it is a rich mine, and the gold goes deep. What struck me this time is that it is good not just to refrain from un-forgiveness, but to not consider oneself separate from the rest of mankind, since God is the Father of all, “Our Father”, and since all are children, all are siblings. Therefore, even to hold one’s self aloof from one’s brothers and sisters is not excellence, although how I do with that is not for me to say, right.

And just in general, I still get more out of it, knowing more about the Bible than the last time I read it, and I affirm again this second time the book’s worth.

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It’s really beyond my ability to take a thread from the ball of yarn to try to describe it, although I wish I could.… (mais)

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smallself | 2 outras críticas | Sep 26, 2019 |

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