The Community's Power to Raise the Dead.         Christians have always recognized that God gives signs by the miraculous – events out of the ordinary course of nature. God does so for many purposes, not the least of which is to wake people up to God’s reality and the fundamental realities of our existence.         Last week we quoted Church Father St. Irenaeus, writing about AD 180, as saying the raising from the dead “is oftentimes” done, especially with the prayer and fasting of the Christian community.         This prayer by the faithful as a community in raising the dead was seen in Constantinople in the AD 380's where Bishop St. Gregory of Nazianzus (329-390), along with his congregation, prayed for a woman, who was pregnant, who fell from the gallery in their meeting place (it didn’t happen to be the formal church at that time). Both mother and child were restored to life, and the miracle wa...