Charles D. Provan
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Charles D. Provan was a revisionist scholar and Christian theologian based in Monongahela, Pennsylvania. He attended Bob Jones University for a few years and then transferred to the University of Pittsburgh to study history. Provan was a manager of Zimmer Printing of Monongahela, Pennsylvania. Married and the father of 10 children, he died of natural causes on December 11, 2007, at the age of 52. [1]
On the subject of World War II history, Provan was a skeptical historian who accepted some of the standard accounts of World War II Nazi policy toward Jews, including mass murder in gas chambers in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Treblinka. Provan demonstrated the scientific feasibility of mass murder by diesel gas vans against the thesis of Friedrich P. Berg.[2]
Provan appeared at Holocaust denial conferences as a guest speaker. David Irving hosted a debate between Provan and masonry-industry consultant/historian Brian Renk in Cincinnati, Ohio, on the subject of homicidal gas chambers. [3] His "holocaust-related" works have been featured in the controversial Institute for Historical Review.[4]
His book The Bible and Birth Control is regarded as providing theological justification for adherents within the Quiverfull movement.[5] As a Christian theologian, Provan was an advocate of a strict constructionist stance on contraception.
Provan's titles include:
- The Bible and Birth Control,
- No Holes? No Holocaust? and
- The Church Is Israel Now.
[edit] External links
- Chapter of Provan's The Bible and Birth Control available here.
