Prof. Pablo Irizar
Pablo Irizar is Vice President, Academic Dean, and Professor of Theology at Newman Theological College (Alberta, Canada). He also serves as a doctoral research supervisor with the School of Theology at St Mary’s University, Twickenham (UK), and previously held the endowed Kennedy Smith Chair in Catholic Studies at McGill University (Montreal, Canada).
His research systematically explores, and builds upon, the historical development and legacy of the Neo-Platonic tradition in areas related to theology and philosophy of religion.
Irizar is the founding Series Editor of Latin American Sources of Theology, Philosophy, and History, based at and generously funded by Bridwell Press at Southern Methodist University (Texas, US). The series publishes bilingual scholarly editions of key texts in Latin American intellectual history, foregrounding the earliest and unique transmission of the Neo-Platonic Tradition in the Americas.
Irizar is the translator and editor of the series’ inaugural bilingual volume, The Original Story of Guadalupe: The Image of the Virgin Mary of Guadalupe by Miguel Sánchez (1648). A companion introductory small book, Miguel Sánchez as the First Theologian of the Americas, is contracted with Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Element).
Some of his recent publications include:
● Augustine on the Image of God, Identity and the Church (De Gruyter, 2026)
● The Metamorphosis of Love: Body, Word and Free Will in On the Song of Songs by Bernard of Clairvaux (Brill, 2023)
● Augustine on Distance, Belonging, Isolation and the Quarantined Church of Today (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022)
In 2020, Irizar was the recipient of the Louvain Studies Theological Research Award. He is the convener of the Canadian meetings of the International Network for the Philosophy of Religion (Montreal, 20203; Edmonton, 2027).
He holds two doctorates: a PhD in the area of Church History from KU Leuven (Belgium), and a PhD in the area of Philosophy of Religion from the Catholic University of Paris (France).
