Charles D. Provan

[1] On the subject of World War II history, Provan came to shock Holocaust deniers by proving that their assumptions were misleading.

[2] As a Christian theologian, Provan was an advocate of a strict constructionist stance on contraception.

His book The Bible and Birth Control is regarded as providing theological justification for adherents within the Quiverfull movement.

[3] In 2007 Provan wrote a series of studies of allegories in the Bible, premised on his theory of "conditional prophecy."

Provan expressed other controversial exegetical views in Christian News, including the idea that two books of the Old Testament: The Song of Solomon and Ecclesiastes were warnings concerning both the late-life degeneracy of King Solomon and thinking and behavior about which believers should not engage.