Narnia, Toynbee, and the Lion of Judah

MOJ-friend John O'Callaghan has a useful post up at the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture's blog, trying to assist Polly Toynbee in understanding the whole Christ-the-Lion thing:

Not only does it seem to be the case, as Ms. Toynbee points out, that the English public can no longer understand artistic references to "agony in the garden", "deposition", "transfiguration" or "ascension," but in the person of Ms. Toynbee, who does not like the reference to Aslan as a lion, preferring only the lamb imagery, they also seem to have lost all sense of such literary biblical references as "the lion of Judah," a reference that Christians have for millennia taken to be a reference to Christ[.]