Translation of : Zwischen Gott und Satan.

I. Prelude: bread, temple pinnacles, and shining lands in the desert sands -- Vision in the desert -- The mystery temptation: man as the god of God -- Job: the torture and the hourglass of the tempter -- The doubter from the beginning -- The yearning to be free of God -- Led by the spirit into the wilderness -- The Babylonian heart -- The moral sortie out of Babylon -- The mirage of the heart -- The horror of solitude -- The vulnerable point -- Jesus our fate -- II. The first temptation: The reality of hunger -- The place of temptation: the realm of concrete things -- The wish as father to the thought about God -- The shadow-art of apologies -- Hunger and doubt -- The devil on the basis of the fact of God -- Calculator and intriguer -- The devil's consistency -- The obedience of Jesus -- The masks of God -- The spirit of worry -- The battle-fronts in our breast -- The cosmic spectacle -- Our pleading and God's majestic will. III. The second temptation: the alluring miracle of display -- The honour of God and the integrity of his word -- The worshippers of 'God of Power' -- Will and power of God -- The godly demon -- The word of God in the twilight -- The word as authority -- Powers and slaves -- Technology as tool and as 'power' -- IV. The third temptation: Jesus' kingdom of this world -- The shining landscape -- The globe in the devil's hand -- Jesus' vision on the exceeding high mountain -- The faintheartedness of Christians -- The clash of the tempter with God -- The mystery of the defencelessness of Jesus -- Grace and judgment in Jesus' defencelessness.