This project “Creatures of the Dark: A Marginal Theology,” is a constructive theological analysis of freedom and marginality in the Christian tradition. In the first half, it explores the relationship between institutions and marginality, and then discusses the nature of theological language in the margins. To narrow this discussion and to hear the sound of the margin’s language, I pay attention to unusual language, unfamiliar words and sounds that emerge in marginal lives. One of the more “silent” terms in Christian theology – particularly liberal Protestant theology – is the angel, and this project will pay particular attention to lives that express dimensions of freedom and marginality with angelic terminology. The second half of the dissertation explores three women - Séraphine Louis, Jarena Lee, and St. Macrina - who describe their lives in relation to margin, freedom and angelic reference. As these three different lives show, the life on the margins can be understood: a) as a risky and fragile space of freedom, b) a space of religious liberty where one battles against the oppressive restrictions of the central political power brokers, and c) a way into the divine freedom that transforms the human life into an eschatological, cosmic life of freedom. These are all different ways in which freedom of faith can be understood and heard in the margins.