The subject of this study is the views of 20th-century Bulgarian intellectuals on the Christianization of their state and culture. The kairotic experience, i.e. the feeling that is a turning point or a special moment in development, refers here both to the situation they write about, i.e. the historical events of the 9th century, and to the situation in which they comment on the national past (the interwar period and the communism). The aim is to problematize the way of understanding and explaining the conversion of faith - from pagan (Slavic, Proto-Bulgarian) to Christian (Byzantine Orthodox), as either religious or political act, in the perspective of the issues of social and ethnic divisions. It seems that the writers are more interested in social inequality than confessional identity itself, seeing it as the cause of the collapse of the state, and this interpretive pattern repeats in Bulgarian intellectual discourse regardless of the authors' worldviews. The question is how to interpret this focus on social aspect rather than religious one, how it is related to the times in which the intellectuals operated, and how the rhetorical and persuasive functions of their writing serve creating or maintaining a national narrative. Therefore, the question of kairotic experience in Bulgarian cultural projections will address the issue of perceiving the national history within quasi-religious or (post) secular terms which potentially refers to the Other dimension (L. Dupre).