Isaac Zokoué

{{short description|Central African theologian}}

Isaac Zokoué (September 17, 1944 — September 12, 2014) was a leading theologian in the Central African Republic. For 14 years was dean of the leading French-speaking evangelical seminary, Faculte de Theologie Evangelique de Bangui.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B6xVDwAAQBAJ&q=Isaac+Zokoue&pg=PA136|title=Encyclopedia of Christianity in the Global South|last=Lamport|first=Mark A.|date=2018-06-01|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9781442271579|language=en}}

Zokoué wrote a number of books and articles about harmonizing Christian ideas to African cultures,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vlmXBe0RPxYC&q=Zokoue&pg=PA220|title=The Cambridge Companion to Evangelical Theology|last1=Larsen|first1=Timothy|last2=Treier|first2=Daniel J.|date=2007-04-12|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9781139827508|language=en}} including “Jésus-Christ sauveur : le mystère des deux natures: perspective africaine,”{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61724665|title=Jésus-Christ sauveur: le mystère des deux natures : perspective africaine|last=Zokoue|first=Isaac|date=2004|publisher=Editions CLE|isbn=995609014X|location=Yaoundé|oclc=61724665|language=French}} his doctorate thesis in theology at the University of Strasbourg.{{Cite journal|date=1996|title=Index international des dissertations doctorales en théologie et en droit canonique présentées en 1995|url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/thlou_0080-2654_1996_num_27_4_2862?q=zokoue|journal=Revue Théologique de Louvain|language=fr-FR|volume=27|issue=4}}

Because of his prominence as a religious leader, he was asked to lead the Preliminary Committee for the National Debate in 2003, which was meant to find a way of ending the cycle of coups and civil war in the country.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tbDFlvQeps0C&q=Isaac+Zokoue&pg=PR63|title=Historical Dictionary of the Central African Republic|last=Kalck|first=Pierre|date=2005|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=9780810849136|language=en}}