Elizabeth Stuart (theologian)

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Professor Elizabeth Stuart (born Kent) is a UK theologian specialising in Queer Theology.

Contents 1 Academic Positions 2 Miscellany 3 Bishop 4 Published works 5 External links

[edit] Academic Positions

She is Professor of Christian Theology at the University of Winchester and was founding chair of the Centre for the Study of Christianity and Sexuality. She co-edits the academic journal Theology and Sexuality.

[edit] Miscellany

Her grandfather is Ronald Neil Stuart, VC.

[edit] Bishop

Professor Stuart was consecrated as a Bishop in the Open Episcopal Church (a small, independent grouping within the United Kingdom). In 2006 she became Archbishop of the Province of Great Britain and Ireland of the Liberal Catholic Church International.

[edit] Published works

Her published works include:

• Gay and Lesbian Theologies: Repetitions and Critical Difference
• Just Good Friends: Towards a Lesbian and Gay Theology of Relationships
• Daring to Speak Love’s Name
• Religion is a Queer Thing
• Lesbian and Gay Theologies: Repetitions with Critical Difference

These works show Stuart moving from a liberationist approach to an approach grounded in queer theory. She now argues that gender and sexuality are not matters of ultimate theological concerns and that the Christian duty is to refuse to work theologically with such categories.

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 LGCM Award for 'energetic and prophetic advocacy on behalf of LGBT people, numerous pioneering theological books, and for remaining a loyal member of LGCM'.

In 2008 French academic Stephane Lavignotte published a book about Stuart's theology: Au Dela du lesbian and du male: La subverson des identites dans la theologie 'queer' d'Elizabeth Stuart is published by Van Dieren.

[edit] External links

• Professor Stuart's staff listing at the University of Winchester Website
• The Open Episcopal Church
• The Liberal Catholic Church International