I would reverse the thinking on the Cleric verses the Priest.
The base 'heal bot' cleric does not need a spell selection. This is the 1e Cleric that wields a mace and it a pocket fighter (interestingly more of a gish then most wizard attempts at the gish).
The cleric would have a few abilities to modify their mace usage and various healing magics as they level (maybe borrow the lay on hands ability from the the Pathfinder Paladin or something similar that allows healing or some charges to be used for more complex types of healing <cure blindness, cure disease> ).
This would be the simplified Cleric.
The priest would be more of the 'bells and whistles' version of a holy person who has domains representing different gods and pantheons. They would have the spell selection which would include various domain lists of spells.
The bridge between the two classes would be taking the Cleirc and then giving some options that can be pulled from the base and replaced with other options. This would create the Storm Cleric or Fire Cleric (reducing the mace usage for something else and giving a bit different in the utility power selection).
The base 'heal bot' cleric does not need a spell selection. This is the 1e Cleric that wields a mace and it a pocket fighter (interestingly more of a gish then most wizard attempts at the gish).
The cleric would have a few abilities to modify their mace usage and various healing magics as they level (maybe borrow the lay on hands ability from the the Pathfinder Paladin or something similar that allows healing or some charges to be used for more complex types of healing <cure blindness, cure disease> ).
This would be the simplified Cleric.
The priest would be more of the 'bells and whistles' version of a holy person who has domains representing different gods and pantheons. They would have the spell selection which would include various domain lists of spells.
The bridge between the two classes would be taking the Cleirc and then giving some options that can be pulled from the base and replaced with other options. This would create the Storm Cleric or Fire Cleric (reducing the mace usage for something else and giving a bit different in the utility power selection).