Renascence has produced many special issues: on the works of Gabriel Marcel, Graham Greene and René Girard, as well as special topics including Literature and Martyrdom, Polish Literature and Family Values in Literature. Some of these special issues may be out of print or only available as photocopies.

Volume	Issue	Year	Title
8.4	Summer	1956	Claudel Memorial
22.3	Spring	1970	T.S. Eliot
34.4	Summer	1982	Aesthetic Theory of Jacques Maritain
35.2	Winter	1983	James Joyce Centenary
36.1-2	Fall/ Winter	1983-1984	Catholic Writers in France: Generation of 1915
37.3	Spring	1985	A New Mimesis
38.2	Winter	1986	Poetry of David Jones
41.1-2	Fall/ Winter	1988-1989	George Bernanos, 1888-1988
42.1-2	Fall/ Winter	1989-1990	Gerard Manley Hopkins
43.1-2	Fall/ Winter	1990-1991	John Henry Cardinal Newman, 1890-1990
44.1	Fall	1991	Family Values in Literature
44.3	Spring	1992	Walker Percy
45.1-2	Fall/ Winter	1992-1993	Richard Wilbur
45.3	Spring	1993	George Herbert
47.3-4	Spring/ Summer	1995	Sacrum in Polish Literature
48.1	Fall	1995	Literature and Martyrdom
48.2	Winter	1996	Hans Urs von Balthasar
49.1	Fall	1996	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
50.3-4	Fall/ Winter	1996-1997	Spirit in the Poetry of Denise Levertov
51.1	Fall	1998	C.S. Lewis Centenary
52.1	Fall	1999	Critical Perspectives on René Girard
55.1	Fall	2002	Critical Perspectives on Graham Greene
55.3	Spring	2003	Critical Perspectives on Gabriel Marcel
56.4	Summer	2004	Critical Perspectives on Hans-Georg Gadamer
57.4	Summer	2005	Hopkins Scholarship: Today and Yesterday
58.1	Fall	2005	Critical Perspectives on Denise Levertov
60.2	Winter	2008	R. S. Thomas: New Perspectives in Scholarship and Criticism
63.1	Fall	2010	Puzzling Owen Barfield: Critical Perspectives and Scholarly Vistas
64.1	Fall	2011	H. Marshall McLuhan: A Centenary Tribute
65.1	Fall	2012	Renaissance Renascence
65.5	Fall	2013	Focus on Flannery O'Connor
66.2	Spring	2014	Essays on Marylynne Robinson, including exclusive interview
69.3	Summer	2017	Unorthodox Orthodoxies: Catholic Literature and Culture, 1907-1970
73.1	Winter	2021	Modernism and the Turn Toward Religion