"Founder of Neoplatonism" might not say much to most people nowadays. A perhaps more apt description follows later: "The theological traditions of Christianity,

"Founder of Neoplatonism" might not say much to most people nowadays. A perhaps more apt description follows later: "The theological traditions of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism all, in their formative periods, looked to ancient Greek philosophy for the language and arguments with which to articulate their religious visions. For all of these, Platonism expressed the philosophy that seemed closest to their own theologies. Plotinus was the principal source for their understanding of Platonism." Still, the content of his teachings is largely Greek to us now (pun intended).