本文从进程、特征和作用三方面探讨了日耳曼人基督教化这一中古西欧文明发展过程中的重要事件。日耳曼人的基督教化过程是渐进的、漫长的,且呈阶段性。在特征上,日耳曼人的基督教化大都采取自上而下的模式,并带有强烈的日耳曼色彩,在推行过程中文治与武功并举。日耳曼人的基督教化不仅促进了西欧的封建化进程,加速了日耳曼人的文明开化,而且保证了西欧古典文明的传承。日耳曼人的基督教化,与后来欧洲,主要是西欧成为基督教文明地区有密切的先后承继关系,也就是说,日耳曼人的基督教化直接促成了西欧地区基督教文明的产生。从这个意义上说,基督教文化与日耳曼文化共同构成了中古以后西欧文明的宗教渊源。 This article explores the important events of the Christianization of the Germans as a process of development of West European civilization in the Middle Ages from the perspectives of process, features and functions. The Christianization of the Germans is a gradual, long and staged process. Characteristically, the majority of Germanic Christianizations adopted a top-down model with a strong Germanic character. Both the Chinese and the martial arts were simultaneously implemented in the process of implementation. The Christianization of the Germans not only promoted the process of feudalization in Western Europe, accelerated the culture of the Germans but also guaranteed the inheritance of the classical civilization in Western Europe. The Christianization of Germans followed closely the subsequent development of Europe, mainly Western Europe, into a Christian and civilized area. In other words, the Christianization of Germanic people directly contributed to the birth of Christian civilization in Western Europe. In this sense, Christian culture and Germanic culture together constitute the religious origins of Western European civilization after Middle Ages.