After exploring three "ideal types" of rural marriage payment practice, the author found that rural marital payment practice is undergoing a change from marital reimburses to marital subsidization and mutual affinal benefits.

This paper researches the marriage thought of The Bible,early church fathers and some theologists of the middle ages;it probes into the formation of Christian marriage thought from the following four aspects;the purpose of marriage,the making of marriage(what makes a valid marrige),the dissolution of marriage and the ethics of marriage.