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).