Elizabeth Stuart (theologian)

Elizabeth Bridget Stuart MBE (born 1963 in Kent) is a British theologian specialising in Queer Theology.

[1] She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2024 New Year Honours for services to higher education.

[2] Stuart was consecrated as a bishop in the Open Episcopal Church, a small, independent grouping within the United Kingdom.

Jeffrey John argued against the model proposed in Just Good Friends in his booklet Permanent, Faithful, Stable: Christian Same-Sex Partnerships.

In 2008 Stuart received the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement Award for "energetic and prophetic advocacy on behalf of LGBT people, numerous pioneering theological books, and for remaining a loyal member of LGCM".