Renascence has produced many special issues: on the works of Gabriel Marcel, Graham Greene and Ren茅 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 Ren茅 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 |
