THE 1960s: RELIGION: DEATHS

Bruce Barton, 80, author of best-selling religious books in the early decades of the century, 5 July 1967.

Smiley Blanton, 84, cofounded with Norman Vincent Peale the Religio-Psychiatric Clinic at Marble Collegiate Church in 1937, 30 October 1966.

Francis Cardinal Brennan, 74, the first American member of the Sacred Roman Rota, the highest Roman Catholic court; named cardinal in 1967, 2 July 1968.

Frank N. D. Buchman, 83, founder of the Oxford Group Movement (later Moral Re-Armament) in 1921, an effort to organize a "God-guided campaign to prevent war by moral and spiritual awakenings," 7 August 1961.

Father Major Jelous Devine, 88, religious-social leader who in 1942 incorporated his following as the Peace Mission Movement, 10 September 1965.

Harry Emerson Fosdick, 91, the most popular Protestant preacher in the nation and one of the country's leading liberal churchmen, 5 October 1969.

Franklin Clark Fry, 67, one of the organizers of the World Council of Churches in 1948 and the National Council of Churches in Christ in 1950, 6 June 1968.

Charles E. Fuller, 81, the most successful radio evangelist of his day, 18 May 1968.

Sweet Daddy Grace, 78, founder of the House of Prayer for All People, a Pentecostal denomination most active in the African-American community, 12 January 1960.

John Haynes Holmes, 84, one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the American Civil Liberties Union, 3 April 1964.

Robert Jones, Sr., 84, founder of the fundamentalist Bob Jones University, now in Greenville, South Carolina, 16 January 1968.

Clarence Jordan, 57, a founder of Koinonia Farms, an experimental Christian commune near Americus, Georgia, 29 October 1969.

Kenneth S. Latourette, 84, a leading historian of religion in America, 26 December 1968.

Metropolitan Leonty, 88, helped form the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church, now the Orthodox Church in America, 4 May 1965.

Haiford E. Luccock, 75, professor of homiletics at Yale University, 5 November 1960.

Thomas Merton, 53, author and Cistercian monk, 10 December 1968.

John Courtney Murray, S.J., 53, author, theologian, and professor at Woodstock College, Maryland, 16 August 1967.

A.(Abraham) J. (Johannes) Muste, 82, minister in the Society of Friends and a vigorous opponent of the expanding U.S. military role in Vietnam, 11 February 1967.

Helmut Richard Niebuhr, 67, author and member of the Yale University faculty from 1931 until his death, 5 July 1962.

G. Bromley Oxnam, 72, leading Protestant proponent of liberal causes and target of red-baiting even before the cold war period, 13 March 1963.

James A. Pike, 56, Episcopal bishop and religious skeptic, 2 September 1969.

Daniel Alfred Poling, 83, pastor in the Reform Church of America and owner and editor of the Christian Herald, 7 February 1968.

Charles Francis Potter, 79, a Baptist minister, then a Unitarian Universalist, then a humanist, 4 October 1965.

Joseph Elmer Cardinal Ritter, 74, Catholic bishop and later cardinal, a leader in integrating Catholic schools and as an American voice at the Second Vatican Council, speaking strongly for religious liberty, the absolution of the Jews for the death of Jesus, and the authority of the bishops as well as the pope in the affairs of the church, 10 June 1967.

Most. Rev. Joseph Francis Rummel, 88, Roman Catholic archbishop of New Orleans, who introduced integration into southern parochial schools, 8 November 1964.

AbbaHillel Silver, 70, Reform rabbi and leader of efforts to convince the Reform association to support the Zionist cause, 28 November 1963.

Francis Cardinal Spellman, 78, Roman Catholic archbishop and the leading Catholic figure in the United States, 2 December 1967.

Paul Tillich, 79, leading Protestant theologian and author who was forced from the University of Frankfurt by the new Nazi government in Germany in 1933, 22 October 1965.

John Ralph Voris, 87, Presbyterian minister who organized the Save the Children charity in 1932 to address the needs of children in the Appalachian Mountains during the Depression, 16 January 1968.

Harry Fredrick Ward, 93, Methodist pastor and founder of the Methodist Federation for Social Action (later the Methodist Federation for Social Service), 9 December 1966.