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[German Version] The substantive presuppositions of the study Strukturen missionarischer Gemeinden (Stuctures of Missionary Communities = SMC) issued in 1961 at the commission of the World Council of Churches include the external integration of the WCC and the International Missionary Council (IMC) (1961), the efforts at a renewal of the theology of missionary proclamation begun already in the 1950's, the emphasis on the missionary responsibility of the laity, and the r…

[German Version] I. Church History – II. Legal Considerations I. Church History 1. Europe Since their inception in the High Middle Ages, faculties of theology have been an integral if not absolutely necessary component of European universities (cf. the medical school in Salerno or the law school of Bologna). At universities modeled after the one in Paris, theology, law, and medicine constituted the three upper faculties. From the outset, state and ecclesiastical interests overlapped in faculties of theology…