Here is an excellent post by Douglas Wilson on Protestantism's liberation of the arts. I think that he is right, but I might want more to be said. Recent Protestant forays into the arts been worse than mixed, but I do not think that this has much to do with Protestantism in any historic. Rather, it has to do with cultural capitulation to worldly standards of beauty in the arts, a deep and abiding desire to make money, and to be respected by unbelieving artists (see the phrase "crossover"). The post is, all in all, excellent and well worth reading:
