本期出刊时正是夏末秋初，也是新学年开学不久，莘莘学子有的返校，有的初入校门，大家都怀著一分憧憬，一腔说不出的渴望，想在辅大美丽的校园里找回那已失去的灵魂似的。一度曾甚嚣尘上的闰八月这时也应该有所分晓了，因为这次闰八月是阳历九月25日开始，十月23日结束，两岸并未因李总统的访美，或连院长的访欧，造成正式的冲突，只是辜汪会谈和焦唐协商暂时延搁了一下就是了，等双方冷静下来，还是不得不谈的，数千万甚至亿兆的人怎可强人屈从己意，而不以交谈来沟通呢？

    本期的八篇文章分属四个部门，圣经、信理、灵修、牧灵各二篇。圣经的两篇均由本院的圣经学教授执笔。黄怀秋老师的《厄弗所书的文学和神学现象》把这封书信的特色和深度简要地指点出来。文学方面，它的用字遣词不但与新约其他的书不大一样，连在保禄的整体著作中也独占鳖头。至于神学方面，这书信的末世论、教会论和基督论都有其特徵，非常值得仔细玩味。

穆宏志神父的《圣经中的平信徒》是他五年前给一群教友讲过的主题，如今重新予以整理，供本刊读者参考，是很适当的时刻。文中先澄清“平信徒”一词的含义，由消极到积极，由部分到整体，然后在第一部分描述旧约中天主子民的被选、被祝圣，分为司祭、先知、君王三种职务，都是为了服务天主的子民。第二部分指“约的改革”耶稣在世从未受傅为王，有时人称他为先知，但他自认为师傅（夫子），他与司祭更是无缘。只在“新约团体中

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他被承认是君王、先知、甚至司祭”。第三部分放下理论，看一下实际的生活，这里可由宗徒大事录的记载看到整个信者的团体，不分平信徒或神职，共同从事福传。五个地方教会是五个值得参考的例子，那就是耶路撒冷、安提约基雅、格林多、厄弗所及罗马。

    张春申神父的《新约的教会学（下）》这次刊出最后的三章，即公函的教会学、若望著作的教会学及默示录的教会学。其中以若望的教会学最为突出，也十分精彩，恰好为这篇长文《新约的教会学》画龙点睛式地作了一个综合的结论。作者先从步特曼否认若望有教会学开始，然后检讨基督新教及天主教学者对若望著作的圣事问题持反圣事论、泛圣事论及中间路线的不同看法，说出若望的教会学究竟有何面貌。圣事以外，若望的教会学还包括庆节，伯铎职务，及合一等与团体生活密切相关的一些问题。

魏明德修士的一篇有关《“自我”与“无我”》的文章是一个有趣的宗教交谈的范例。他能以无我为法本及道家的无我思想来解释福音中的一些基本生活态度，如“谁获得自己的性命，必要丧失生命；谁为我的缘故，丧失了自的己性命，必要获得性命”（玛十39）可与道德经第四十二章相比“物或损之而益，或益之而损”，这类比对是可以大加发挥的。其他几篇，有关《女性神学与灵修的中心课题》、《中国知识分子与皈依》、《为美华信仰团体执事圣秩催生》等文章都是颇有看头的。朱蒙泉神父所创立和主持的辅友中心有两处，一在柏克莱，一在洛杉矶，二处不断向大陆学者伸出友谊之手。

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By the time the present issue of our mgrine is Published. the newschool year will have just begun. Numerous Students will be retundngto school, som of them are newcomers, others old customers, all withsome kind of longing for reghning of the lost soul or self so to speak.The classes start on Sepember 25, the first day of the intercalary monthof August of the lunar year. Recently, there has been a lot of talk and rumors about a communist invasion and the consequent catastrophes.President Lee's visit to the USA has caused some tensions across theTaiwan strait. The bilateral consultation bebeen Taiwan and mainland China has also been suspended for the moment. But for how long? Will the 21 million Chinese in Taiwan not be allowed to talk with the l.2 billion Chinese on mainland China forever?

The eigh articles of the present issue are divided into four sections: Scripture, Dogmatic, Spirituality, and Pastoral; each section has two items. The two anicles on the Scripture are contributions from our faculty. Mrs. Theresa Wong wroe about the literary and theological figures in the Epistle to Ephesians. The literare form of Ephesians differentiates itself not only from the other writings of the NT in terms of vocabulary and expression, but also from the whole corpus paulinum.Furthermore, the theology of this epistle also show unique characteristics in eschatology, ecclesiology, and Christology.

Fr. Jesús muñoz's article, ''Laity in the Holy Scripture," was a talkgiven to a group of Christians five years ago. Now he has arranged it for Publication at this suitable time. What does laity mean? It can bedescribed negaively or positively, or from parts to the whole. Within the OT, the people of God were elected, consecrated, and given ministries of priest, prophat, and king. The auhor points out changs found in the NT: Jesus is not anointed a king, though people occasionally call him a prophet, he prefers to call himself a teacher, he is never a priest. Only much later in the NT communities was Jesus confessed as king, prophet,and even priest. Finally, the practical situation of laity is examined throughout the Acts where the whole community of believers, lay and clergy, is found dedicating itself to evangelization. Five local churches are outstanding models:  Jerusalem, Antioch, Corinth, Ephesus, and Rome.

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The last part of the article of Fr. Aloysius B. Chang on “Ecclesiology of the NT” examines the Canonical Letters, the writings of John and the Apocalypse. The discussion of St. John's Ecclesiology is outstanding.Staling with the statement of R. Bultmann that there is no ecclesiologyin St. John, the amhor scrutinizes diffrent positions of Protestants and Catholics reguding St. John on the questions of sacrament, feast, Peter's ministry, and Christian Union—all are important questions for the life of community or ecclesia.

The French Jesuit scholastic Belloit Vermander with his allicle"Concepts of Self and Selfless seen from the NT" tries to use theseconcepts from Buddhism and Taoism to explain the Gospel’s teaching on abneghion as well as Paul's notion of kenosis. The remaning articles discuss feminist theology and spirituality, Chinese intellectuals and conversion, and promotion to the Order of Diaconate among the Chinese-Americans for the service of their communities. The author of the lest two items, Fr. Bernard Chu, is founder and director of two Friendship Houses, one in Berkeley and the other in Los Angeles, which try to give a helping hand to Chinese intellectuals coming to the USA for studes.

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