The Ratcatcher: A Tale of the Pied Piper of Hamelin: Philosophical reflections - Couverture souple

Tiger, Arthur A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 6166297106 ISBN 13 : 9786166297102

Editeur : His Story for Us, 2025

Synopsis

On June 26, 1284, one hundred and thirty children walked out of the German town of Hamelin and never returned. The town chronicles recorded the date. The church recorded the number. No one recorded why.

Somewhere in the centuries that followed, the dry fact of loss acquired a story: rats, a piper, a broken promise, a mountain that opened and closed. The legend of the Pied Piper was born.

The Ratcatcher is a book in two parts. The first is a literary retelling of the legend — dark, atmospheric, written for adults rather than children. The second is a series of philosophical essays examining what the story means: the ethics of broken promises, the economics of creative work, the mechanics of collective guilt, the nature of manipulation, and the problem of living with loss that offers no closure.

This is a book of questions, not answers. It does not redeem the tragedy or explain it away. It sits with the discomfort and asks what the legend — which has survived for seven centuries — might still have to teach us about promises, about strangers, about the debts we pass to our children.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Arthur A. Tiger is a writer and theologian who explores the territory where faith meets science, philosophy, and the mysteries of human experience. At the heart of his work stands the apostle Paul - a figure he returns to again and again, reconstructing lost epistles, reimagining Paul's voice for today, and tracing the depths of his radical transformation. Beyond Pauline studies, Tiger writes across an unusually wide range: from astrobiology and cosmology to psychology, relationships, and cultural criticism - always searching for the connections that unite these disciplines rather than divide them. His own journey from skepticism to faith runs through everything he writes. Rather than offering easy answers, he invites readers to discover that honest questioning and genuine belief are not opposites but companions - and that every scientific discovery is not a challenge to faith but an invitation to see it more clearly.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: His Story for Us
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 6166297106
• ISBN 13: 9786166297102
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 100
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