The phrase "surrender of self" is correct and can be used in written English.
It usually refers to the act of putting aside your own wants or desires in order to focus on meeting the needs of another. For example, "Out of love for her family, she decided to make a surrender of self and take on the responsibility of caring for her elderly parents."
The doxastic venture model may thus be regarded as capturing the spiritual challenge of faith more satisfactorily than evidential proportion models do, since it involves a deeper surrender of self-reliant control, not only in trusting God, but in accepting that there is a God indeed, this God who is to be trusted.
That surrender of self-interest to a pure transcendent principle brings a whole new meaning to the term "immaculate conception" -- one that's not gender-specific.
It is rare but not impossible to think of a fashion event in terms of morality and a surrendering of self-respect; this was one of those times.
If Smile was about the total surrender of the self and disbelief, and Internal about the treachery we invite from others in the pursuit of intimacy, A Game of You hovers between the two offering a gentler but no less disorientating experience.
Even in the midst of today's despair, Labor must not surrender its sense of self as defined by its dominance over so much of what is our national consensus.
So... Dear Mother Hearts, "Wow", and "thank you!" I bow to each of you as you make your way from full-on surrender, carving out of self. to accommodate another person so fully...
Sex? Together we do what we can to strip it of enigma and power, since without a patina of dullness it is too destabilizing to sustain, involving as it does "multiple surrenders, relinquishments of self-control... immersion in the sensations and rhythms of the other".
But she's also a psychological prisoner who has surrendered her sense of self.
I believe that for folks that look like me, surrendering effective means of self defense and trusting that system is suicide.
