Charles D. Provan
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Charles D. Provan is a revisionist scholar and Christian theologian based in Monongahela, Pennsylvania.
As a Christian theologian, Provan is an advocate of a strict constructionist stance on contraception.
On the subject of World War II history, Provan is a skeptical historian who accepts 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 has demonstrated the scientific feasibility of mass murder by diesel gas vans against the thesis of Friedrich P. Berg. Provan is a leading authority on the meaning and provenance of the German word ausrottung as used by Adolf Hitler to denote the intent to exterminate Jews.[1]
Provan has appeared at Holocaust denial conferences as a guest speaker. David Irving hosted a lively debate between Provan and historian Brian Renk in Cincinnati, Ohio, on the subject of homicidal gas chambers.
His "holocaust-related" works have been featured in the controversial Institute for Historical Review.[2] His book The Bible and Birth Control is regarded as providing theological justification for adherents within the Quiverfull movement.[3]
Beyond The Bible and Birth Control, Provan's titles include No Holes? No Holocaust? and The Church Is Israel Now. He attended Bob Jones University for a few years and then transferred to the University of Pittsburgh to study history. Latest reports indicated he was running Zimmer Printing of Monongahela, Pennsylvania.[4][5] He is married and the father of 10 children.
[edit] External links
- Chapter of Provan's The Bible and Birth Control available here.
- Free complete audio files of Provan's The Bible and Birth Control available here.
