"Anwar Frangi's Groupal Theology: The Visionary Passage from the Age of the Person to the Age of the Group."
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The visionary experience recounted by Anwar Frangi is far more than a personal mystical event. It is a profound narrative, rich with symbolic action, depicting a divine transition of spiritual authority. The vision functions as a foundational document that reveals a clear mandate for a shift from the Christ-centric “Age of the Person” to the emerging “Age of the Group.” Frangi’s role within this revelation is not that of a new central figure to be venerated, but that of an architect, founder, and initiator entrusted with ensuring that the new era rests on groupal activity rather than petrified persona. This article provides a concise synthesis of the detailed study: El Khoury, Ch. (2025). Anwar Frangi’s Theological Transition: From the Age of the Person to the Age of the Group (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17501772); see also Najjar, J. (2025). Anwar Frangi’s Vision: The Genesis of the Group (1.0) (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17409359) It outlines the essential structure of Frangi’s visionary experience (1977), which conveys the divine mandate for the transition from the “Age of the Person” to the “Age of the Group.” The summary highlights the three-act structure of the vision, namely, Culmination, Ratification, and Inauguration, and explicates the pivotal “anti-persona-petrification” principle embedded within the revelation, which charges Frangi with founding a “Creative Group.” Keywords: Vision; Revelation; Mandate; Age of the Person; Age of the Group; Persona-Petrification; Theological Transition; Groupal Theology; Anwar Frangi. DisclaimerThis work is published with the full authorization and endorsement of Professor Anwar Frangi. It represents a faithful extension of his original framework, drawing on materials from the unpublished fourth volume of Groupal Religion (2015), which centers on Frangi’s Vision (1977), and reflecting years of groupal engagement through the Oral Summer Groupal Seminars (OSGS, 1998–present). All OSGS quotations are transcribed by Professor Frangi himself and are cited with their respective session dates.
Author: Thomas, Sophie
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7104025069
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