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(Baptist pastor and college president)
(Baptist pastor and college president)
| birth_date=January 28, 1926
| birth_date=January 28, 1926
| birth_place=Henderson County]]<br> [[Kentucky]], [[United States|USA]]
| birth_place=Henderson County]]<br>[[Kentucky]], [[United States|USA]]
| death_date=December 16, 2010 (aged 84)
| death_date=December 16, 2010 (aged 84)
| death_place=[[Lexington, Kentucky|Lexington]],<br>Fayette County<br>Kentucky
| death_place=[[Lexington, Kentucky|Lexington]],<br>Fayette County<br>Kentucky
| resting_place=Cave Hill Cemetery in [[Louisville]], Kentucky
| resting_place=Cave Hill Cemetery in [[Louisville]], Kentucky
|spouse=(1) Lillian Kiser Butler (deceased)<br>
|spouse=(1) Lillian Kiser Butler (deceased)<br>
(2) Shirley Patton Butler<br>
(2) Shirley Patton Butler<br>
Under Butler, Ninth & O was one of only two or three conservative congregations within the Southern Baptist denomination in the Louisville metropolitan area. Physically close to the Southern Seminary, Butler challenged the modernist and [[liberal]] theology then being taught there. He encouraged [[conservative]] students during the height of the Conservative Resurgence movement that began in the late 1970s. He criticized seminary professor Dale Moody for Moody's claim that a [[Christian]] believer could fall from grace and lose his [[salvation]]. When Moody appeared at Ninth & O one Sunday to confront Butler, the latter remained calm and gracious. Butler was involved in wider Southern Baptist life too through a network of conservative pastors who supported the resurgence and known as the Baptist Faith and Message Fellowship.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nathanfinn.com/|title=One Baptist Perspective|publisher=nathanfinn.com|accessdate=December 23, 2010}}</ref>
Under Butler, Ninth & O was one of only two or three conservative congregations within the Southern Baptist denomination in the Louisville metropolitan area. Physically close to the Southern Seminary, Butler challenged the modernist and [[liberal]] theology then being taught there. He encouraged [[conservative]] students during the height of the Conservative Resurgence movement that began in the late 1970s. He criticized seminary professor Dale Moody for Moody's claim that a [[Christian]] believer could fall from grace and lose his [[salvation]]. When Moody appeared at Ninth & O one Sunday to confront Butler, the latter remained calm and gracious. Butler was involved in wider Southern Baptist life too through a network of conservative pastors who supported the resurgence and known as the Baptist Faith and Message Fellowship.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nathanfinn.com/|title=One Baptist Perspective|publisher=nathanfinn.com|accessdate=December 23, 2010}}</ref>
Butler left Ninth and O to become president of Mid-Continent University, a theologically conservative institution in Mayfield in Graves County in western Kentucky. Founded in 1949 and formerly known as Mid-Continent Baptist Bible College, Mid-Continent gained accreditation under Butler's stewardship in 1992. He worked to expand the university curriculum and served there until his retirement in 1997. While in Mayfield, he attended the Northside Baptist Church.<ref name=foust/><ref name=obit/>
Butler left Ninth and O to become president of Mid-Continent University, a theologically conservative institution in Mayfield in Graves County in western Kentucky. Founded in 1949 and formerly known as Mid-Continent Baptist Bible College, Mid-Continent gained accreditation under Butler's stewardship in 1992. He worked to expand the university curriculum and served there until his retirement in 1997. While in Mayfield, he attended the Northside Baptist Church.<ref name=foust/><ref name=obit/> In 2014, Mid-Continent closed amidst bankruptcy.
During the Conservative Resurgence movement, Butler acquired national attention through the [[Southern Baptist Convention]] with his repeated sermon, "Will the Real Southern Baptist Please Stand Up," a call for biblical orthodoxy and the belief in the inerrancy of Scripture. Paul Pressler, a retired judge in [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], [[Texas]], and one of the key leaders in the Conservative Resurgence, in his book ''A Hill on Which to Die,'' calls Butler one of the "heroes of the resurgence." Pressler further describes Butler's "soul-winning evangelistic ministry" as having been "well-known and respected, not only in Kentucky, but . . . throughout the SBC."<ref name=foust/>
During the Conservative Resurgence movement, Butler acquired national attention through the [[Southern Baptist Convention]] with his repeated sermon, "Will the Real Southern Baptist Please Stand Up," a call for biblical orthodoxy and the belief in the inerrancy of Scripture. Paul Pressler, a retired judge in [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], [[Texas]], and one of the key leaders in the Conservative Resurgence, in his book ''A Hill on Which to Die,'' calls Butler one of the "heroes of the resurgence." Pressler further describes Butler's "soul-winning evangelistic ministry" as having been "well-known and respected, not only in Kentucky, but . . . throughout the SBC."<ref name=foust/>