William Paul Quinn was the fourth bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church

African Methodist Episcopal Church

The African Methodist Episcopal Church, usually called the A.M.E. Church, is a predominantly African American Methodist denomination based in the United States. It was founded by the Rev. Richard Allen in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1816 from several black Methodist congregations in the...

. Quinn was born in Calcutta

Kolkata

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, India

India

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. He was at the organization of the AME Church in 1816, ordained a deacon in 1818, and an elder in 1838. The General Conference of the church elected him a bishop on May 19, 1844. He became the Senior Bishop of the church in May 1849 and served until his death in Richmond, Indiana

Richmond, Indiana

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, United States

United States

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, on February 3, 1873. Bishop Quinn was married to Mary Jane Quinn.

Paul Quinn College

Paul Quinn College

Paul Quinn College is a private, historically black college located in the Oak Cliff area of Dallas, Texas . Paul Quinn College holds the distinction as the oldest historically black college in the country west of the Mississippi River...

 (founded 1872), the oldest African American

African American

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 liberal arts college in Texas

Texas

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, was named after him.

Quinn argued that the Divine Command theory

Divine command theory

Divine command theory is the meta-ethical view about the semantics or meaning of ethical sentences, which claims that ethical sentences express propositions, some of which are true, about the attitudes of God...

should be accepted without question, because God could be seen as always doing the right thing; even if he doesn't appear to be doing the right thing, the end outcome will be good. "Everything God does is good in essence"

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