Espíritu Santo

In his larger corpus of missionary writing, Ximénez refers to the Holy Spirit as "el espíritu Sto.," "el espíritu de Díos" or "la tercera persona de la Santísima Trinidad." The Holy Spirit is characterized as the creative force of God in the biblical text of Genesis, which Ximénez compares to the creation account that begins the Popol Wuj. The complex relationship between Ximénez's Dominican theology and his writing on and from Mesoamerica is the subject of intense scholarly debate (see for instance Quiroa 2002, 2011, and 2017).

In Christianity, the Holy Spirit is the third Person of the Trinity. The Catholic statement of faith, or Nicene Creed, says of the Holy Spirit:

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life,
who proceeds from the Father and the Son,
who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified,
who has spoken through the prophets.

En el cristianismo, el Espíritu Santo es la tercera persona de la Trinidad. La profesión de la fe católica dice de él:

Creo en el Espíritu Santo,
Señor y dador de vida,
que procede del Padre y del Hijo,
que con el Padre y el Hijo recibe
una misma adoración y gloria,
y que habló por los profetas.

Sobre la compleja relación entre la teología dominica y el rol del padre Ximénez en la preparación del Popol Wuj, véase por ejemplo Quiroa (2002, 2011 y 2017).