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=== Protestant Reformation === Doubts resurfaced during the 16th-century [[Protestant]] [[Reformation]]. [[Martin Luther]] called Revelation "neither apostolic nor prophetic" in the 1522 preface to his translation of the New Testament (he revised his position with a much more favorable assessment in 1530),{{sfn|Lohse|1988|pp=322; 337β338}} [[Huldrych Zwingli]] labelled it "not a book of the Bible",<ref> {{cite book |last1=Glasson |first1=T.F. |chapter=How was the Book received by the Church? |editor1-last=Glasson |editor1-first=T.F. |title=The Revelation of John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rh07AAAAIAAJ |series=Cambridge Bible Commentaries on the New Testament |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |date=1965 |page=6 |access-date=29 June 2019 |quote=Zwingli, the Swiss Reformer, said, '[The Book of Revelation] is not a book of the Bible'.}}</ref> and it was the only New Testament book on which [[John Calvin]] did not write a commentary.{{sfn|Hoekema|1979|p= 297}} {{As of|2015|post=,}} Revelation remains the only New Testament book not read in the [[Divine Liturgy]] of the [[Eastern Orthodox Church]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Boring |first1=M. Eugene |year=1989 |title=Revelation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BDQOcCrYFuEC |series=Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching |location=Louisville, Kentucky |publisher=Westminster John Knox Press |publication-date=2011 |page=3 |isbn=978-0-664-23628-1 |access-date=2019-06-29 |quote=To this day, Catholic and Protestant lectionaries have only minimal readings from Revelation, and the Greek Orthodox lectionary omits it altogether.}}</ref> though Catholic and Protestant liturgies include it.
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