Book of Revelation Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === 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. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page