Christianity's Dangerous Idea

I've just finished Alister McGrath's a new history of the Protestant Reformation. As i haven't read much of the "old History", i'm not sure how new it is. For long sections he repeats himself and the book is much longer than it needed to be. However there were some interesting points made. Some are already well known, but i'll list what i thought was particularly interesting.

1. The prostestant reformers focus on justification by faith alone, and sola scripture, led to a desacrilisation of the present world. Hence the rise of atheism and secular society was a result of and partily exists within a society which has desacrilised the material (thought not always successfully). I think this is the point Charles Taylor has made in a Secular Age.

2. That Protestantism is not an arrived at destination or even really a set of doctrines or dogmas, rather it is a method.

3. That there was no one reformation, rather multiple reformations at once.

4. That the reformation was in some sense a radical democractic act, democracising faith, and the justification for that faith.