ABSTRACT
‘Between Hope and Despair’ charts and explains the emotional journey undertaken by persecuted German Calvinists during the Thirty Years War. It shows how despite their sense of election and belonging to God’s chosen people, who were at the centre of the last Apocalyptic battle between Christ and Antichrist, these Calvinist refugees oscillated between hope and despair, depending on the fortunes of war and their chances of returning to “the promised land” of their home country.
